@anolandria Fun with linguistics, if you frame it as "Bottom 60%" then it's placing a ceiling on the amount of people and you might be just above it. Now here's the fun bit, the bottom 60% become a mass of underpaid people in your perspective because they're below you and it's now a personal failing of those people rather than a structural problem!

Thing is that "bottom 60%" is 60% of all of the people in the US, not the lowest 60% of a proportion of the populace which the use of "bottom" implies which means you or someone you know will be in that 60%, it's the casual use of terms meant to mislead.