Originally Posted by CDSmith

It doesn't matter that the middle class in the USA was smaller back then. What the piece says is that the USA had the largest middle class of any country in the world, which could very likely be true. Did Russia have a middle class back then? China? Doubtful. And there other few points mentioned also ring true. Mom WAS actually in the home back then, and none of the taxes mentioned existed at the time.

What is there to quibble about? The piece makes a valid point about how our society is structured now as opposed to back then, and to me at least it's an interesting one, one that obviously makes people at least stop and think.