19% would be the complacent middle class 🤮

Hot tip - that’s most Lemmy users. I’m guessing there’s also people in the top 0.9 kicking around.

Edit: Aaaand yup, there’s cope in the comments.

Socialists are mostly the champaign kind now, although that doesn’t make them wrong, neccesarily. Honestly, I have trouble picturing the old days when the kind of people I live around would have voted left.

What qualifies as “middle class” these days? Roughly 24% of Ontario public sector workers are on the sunshine list. While this doesn’t give us a ton of insight into the private sector, this would still suggest that if we say the 19% is the middle class that to be middle class you have to be making more than $100k/year…

Not trying to argue, just trying to understand where the goalposts are.

The problem with the sunshine list is that it never changes with inflation. It’s basically become a tool for morons to hate on the “overpaid” public sector instead of calling out their own underpaying employers.