Complacent middle class, or rapidly shrinking and struggling to not fall further middle class?

Yeah, the issue here isn’t the middle class, it’s as usual, the owner class that’s the problem

The middle class is their tool. They are incented to perpetuate this bullshit.

Do you mean “incentivized?” But yeah.

Incent is correct in fact 🤓

incent verb in·​cent in-ˈsent incented; incenting; incents transitive verb

: incentivize … a large prize … may also incent some employee referrals. —Bill Conerly

Its definition is literally a reference to “incentivize,” so all that proves is that language has rotted slightly

Back in the 1840s apparently.

www.oed.com/dictionary/incent_v?tl=true

Boy if you actually read the chart

“The earliest known use of the verb incent is in the 1840s.”

???

If you read the chart, rather than just the AI summary, you’d see that usage was quite low until the mid-20th century.