re: Is a family of 4 that earns 97k/year middle class or upper class, on average?

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The majority of Americans do not think 97k/year with 2 kids is upper class

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Most Americans, even the rich ones (and lots of the poor ones), think that they're in the middle class.

That doesn't mean they are.

if you're going to claim that the 87th percentile is middle class, then you're having a stupid argument with yourself. It's clearly upper class (top quintile! Nearly the top decile!), but you're unwilling to accept that because it makes your backwards policies easier to accept if they're "middle class".