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Isn't middle class in GB the bigger percentage?
=Yeah it could very well be, it even seems to include the super rich due to the history. I think that's not helpful.
I agree the old definitions are not so accurate anymore to reflect wealth and income.
It used to be that culturally middleclass and income/wealth middleclass usually overlapped.
But now you can be a nurse, have to go to uni and still be underpaid.
In that sense culture/income have become detached for the old school middle class definition.
But then I read if you are working class you used to be able to become education/culturally middle class via the unions, and now when you work a trad working class job with matching income, but become educated some people no longer see you as working class.
So income wise you are still working class, but culturally you are not as Alf0nse said.
Just gets my goat that the 50-75% get talked about as if they are the top 25% and cause the same problems even though they don't have the same power or income.
Same thing, it's true they have it better than the 25-50% but there is a lot of (probably intentional) narrative to make it sound the 25-75 band is the cause of all the bottom 25 and 25-50 problems where it's the top 10% income that can take the journo/art jobs cos they can live of bank of mum and dad and have more power.
(it's a tricky thing for sure class...)