Many people on this forum have the illusion that the middle class are just people living easy, spoiled lives.
While this is true, the middle class serve as 1/3 of the most important groups in any modernized country.
You have three groups, the rich, who make big companies who sell consumer goods, the poor, who work for the big companies and make the consumer goods, and the middle class, who buy the consumer goods.
If the middle class is to dissolve, there will be a large gap between the lower and upper class, slowing or even stopping upward progress for the lower class. This would simply cause the rich to get richer, and the poor to get poorer. There is no middle ground in a society without a [i]middle[/i] class.
So, to all those who think the middle class is useless, just wait until it finally dissolves.
And you brought this up because?
If the middle class disappeared, then what would all the people in between high and low be called? :downs:
[QUOTE=FalcoLombardi;24852409]And you brought this up because?[/QUOTE]
Because.
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[QUOTE=acidcj;24852435]If the middle class disappeared, then what would all the people in between high and low be called? :downs:[/QUOTE]
You fail to understand the point. In this current economic situation, more and more people in the middle class are becoming unemployed, and because of several factors combined with unemployment, they slip into the lower class.
Rich people buy stuff too. Sometimes. If they don't already have it.
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I don't know a single group that finds the middle class insignificant. Rightist stress the importance of the middle class as a consumer and entrepreneur, the left stresses the middle class as the ideal class that power society.
Infact, both sides completely agree that abolition of a middle class is a sign of social decay, mainly because a lack of middle class would mean a widened absolute gap between rich and poor, and therefore either a terrible deformed labor state or a corporate nightmare. The only real differing opinion is that certain groups believe it to be best if all were middle class, or that everyone is equally poor or wealthy, but no one really even follows those views anymore.
Let me rephrase that: No one believes those views.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;24852447]Because.
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You fail to understand the point. In this current economic situation, more and more people in the middle class are becoming unemployed, and because of several factors combined with unemployment, they slip into the lower class.[/QUOTE]
If there is no middle class, the upper class is forced to lower prices (and also has large amounts of cheap labor, so they're still somewhat profitable), and the high lower class becomes the new middle class.
[QUOTE=acidcj;24852516]If there is no middle class, the upper class is forced to lower prices (and also has large amounts of cheap labor, so they're still somewhat profitable), and the high lower class becomes the new middle class.[/QUOTE]
Not really. In bad economies, rich people are well off because of a vast amount of money.
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[QUOTE=thatguy56;24852509]Rich people buy stuff too. Sometimes. If they don't already have it.[/QUOTE]
Yea, but the middle class are the biggest consumers.
Bourgeois power (:
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I don't know a single group that finds the middle class insignificant. Rightist stress the importance of the middle class as a consumer and entrepreneur, the left stresses the middle class as the ideal class that power society.
Infact, both sides completely agree that abolition of a middle class is a sign of social decay, mainly because a lack of middle class would mean a widened absolute gap between rich and poor, and therefore either a terrible deformed labor state or a corporate nightmare. The only real differing opinion is that certain groups believe it to be best if all were middle class, or that everyone is equally poor or wealthy, but no one really even follows those views anymore.
Let me rephrase that: No one believes those views.[/QUOTE]
I've seen people on this forum that think the middle class are useless.
Why would you write this? Isn't it kind of obvious that the middle class serves an important role
[QUOTE=Perfumly;24852584]Why would you write this? Isn't it kind of obvious that the middle class serves an important role[/QUOTE]
Such as creating threads about the middle class.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;24852578]I've seen people on this forum that think the middle class are useless.[/QUOTE]
Who?
i think op is preaching to the choir
aka trying to tell us something we already know about
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;24852384]Many people on this forum have the illusion that the middle class are just people living easy, spoiled lives.
[b]While this is true[/b], the middle class serve as 1/3 of the most important groups in any modernized country.[/QUOTE]
This isn't true, no I don't need to walk 100 miles to fetch water for my 13 siblings in a straw hut but I don't exactly sit around on the beach sipping martinis all day. I work, I have bills to pay and I have things to get done. I don't know what warrants as an "easy, spoiled life" but in my opinion anybody that is considered middle class lives does not have spoiled life unless they're still unemployed and sitting around on their moms couch every day.
It makes me look better because you agree with me.
It is all a conspiracy.
[quote=The Middle Class]
A nation’s productive—and moral, and intellectual—top is the middle class. It is a broad reservoir of energy, it is a country’s motor and lifeblood, which feeds the rest. The common denominator of its members, on their various levels of ability, is: independence. The upper classes are merely a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.
The middle class is the heart, the lifeblood, the energy source of a free, industrial economy, i.e., of capitalism; it did not and cannot exist under any other system; it is the product of upward mobility, incompatible with frozen social castes. Do not ask, therefore, for whom the bell of inflation is tolling; it tolls for you. It is not at the destruction of a handful of the rich that inflation is aimed (the rich are mostly in the vanguard of the destroyers), but at the middle class.
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[QUOTE=M2k3;24852711]unless they're still unemployed and sitting around on their moms couch every day.[/QUOTE]
sup
im starting to get the feeling that people make these type of threads that contain such overt facts to show off what little knowledge they have in a desperate attempt to sound smart, and actually convince themselves that they are
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