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Originally Posted by Lenny2
You're just pulling this shit out of your ass aren't you?
100 years ago there was no such thing as a "middle class"
There was rich, and poor, and that was pretty much it.
To make a long story short, FDR's New Deal "created" the middle class. It did not exist before then
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There have been 'middle classes' going back thousands of years, although not quite the same as we know it today... the middle classes then were the merchants, landowners, retired public servants and so forth that were living comfortably without being either royalty or peasantry.
By definition, middle-class means:
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Originally Posted by dictionary.com
middle-class
adj : occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy
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So yes, the middle class will always exist to some extent unless you have a 'perfect'(ly dreadful) society of utterly rich and utterly poor with no mobility between the two, and probably has always existed since the conception of commerce itself.