Reply #64: The definitions economists use are NOT consistent.

[UdoKier]

Nor are they based in reality. They tend to use median income, or quintiles, or whatever.

I simply don't think you can call a person who makes an income that less than 20% of the population earn as "middle class", and yet, people in those strata are often defined that way.


And again, struggling to get by on $25K in this environment, it's nigh on impossible to muster ANY sympathy for people living such extravagant lifestyles that they can't sock away some savings on $90K/year.