What defines a middle class person?

Question

And can you have a poor middle class person, or a rich working class person?

Answer 1

it's hard to define them now because it used to be based on the employment system - the people who owned the businesses / land were upper class, lower class were the people who would work there doing manual jobs all their lives and I cant remember how the middle class fitted in

but now anyone can have their own business, post-industrial society is completely different and people can move up or down through the ranks so you don't stay what you were born into any more and there's lots of shades of grey

to answer your second question - a working class person who wins the lottery is still working class, someone born into a rich family who didnt make anything of themselves or inherit any money is still middle class. technically.

Answer 2

The rich working class people would be the politicians. The church and the military. The professors and the scientist.The directors of the theater and movie industry. The editors and publishers just to name a few. The middle class would be the ones who earn a living by working their own business like the horse breeders. the farmers have been pushed aside as high earners, anyone else are the poor class of earners those most dependent on prayer to get them through the day's of hard decisions by the Ellette

Answer 3

Professional.

Good salary, comfortable lifestyle, semi in a fairly expensive area, drives a 4 x 4 to take Tamsin and Kai to school.

Head up a*se when it comes to the poverty that some of their countrymen live in. Prone to saying: "We need Polish in this country because working class people are too lazy to work/won't do minimum wage jobs" obviously having no idea that many working class people slug their guts out for minimum wage. And get very little back for it.

Think you're hard done by if you have to shop at ASDA and don't get two holidays a year.

Answer 4

If you feel like the current government has forgotten about you, then you are middle class.

don't ask a politician to describe what middle class is. Several years ago, I heard a Congressman refer to himself as "lower middle class". At the time, he was being paid $125.000 a year. That kind of out of touch response is what has been wrong with this country for a very long time.

Answer 5

When a rich person hands you a check and a Democrat takes it from you and hands it to someone poor you are middle class

Answer 6

what defines it is what type of job you have, there is a list on the internet some where,
like you are mostly working class if you dont have a degree from uni.

but you are middle class if you are a teacher, lawyer and things like that.

you can have a poor middle class person if you are at the bottom f the list for middle classers, but thats not really poor, if you know what i mean.

Answer 7

must have a AGA cooker in their kitchens before they can be considered middle class , never mind poor or rich middle class.

Answer 8

Mario Cuomo gave a pretty good definition a few years back: "If you need that next paycheck, you're middle class."

Answer 9

There's lower middle class, those that make under 100K pr yr. & upper middle class, those that earn upwards of 100K-less than 1 mil.

Answer 10

it all depends on the wage bracket
so no, you can't be a rich working class