> You clearly have some opinions about shortcomings of the American labor market.
Not that are relevant to this discussion -- I just have a belief that there is a difference between being middle class (the class between the working class and the capitalist class, at least, in the usual definition applicable in post-feudal economies) and identifying as middle class.
Historically, the working class being larger than the other two combined is the norm and America's brief period with a very large middle class was something of an aberration resulting from the rapid application of agriculture by a small population to a large land area before that agriculture was effectively consolidated by large commercial entities.
Not that are relevant to this discussion -- I just have a belief that there is a difference between being middle class (the class between the working class and the capitalist class, at least, in the usual definition applicable in post-feudal economies) and identifying as middle class.
Historically, the working class being larger than the other two combined is the norm and America's brief period with a very large middle class was something of an aberration resulting from the rapid application of agriculture by a small population to a large land area before that agriculture was effectively consolidated by large commercial entities.