You have an idea in your head of a standard that is "middle class".

That is not what I'm talking about.

If we’re splitting the classes by median income (assets could be done, but people in the middle class by median are lucky to even have a mortgage on a home) then it’s about 40k for an individual and 75k for a household.

Statistically speaking "middle class" is the median and a statistical deviation either way.

But that paints an incredibly depressing and realistic picture of what America's "economy" is really like. So the wealthy have pushed the narrative you're following that only a minority of people can obtain "middle class".

Historically when shit gets organized like that, it doesn't end well for the ones that hoarded all the wealth.

The harsh truth is that "middle class" is pretty fucking broke. It's just what happens when you concentrate the wealth at one end of the distribution. And literally the only way to fix that, is by moving the wealth to people lower in the distribution.

So rather than that be the discussion, it benefits the wealthy if people do what you're doing, and act like it just disappeared and can magically be made to reappear from thin air without taking wealth back from the people who have it now.