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[RaP] What is your social background?
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Post by
Lenience
Middle class, average, boring.
Just the way I like it.
Post by
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Post by
Magician22773
Your class brackets are really a little wide there.
And for the few of us, like me, that are "oldies" here, its very possible to fall into all 3 classes at the same time. For me:
I work my butt off, usually at least a good 50+ hours a week. My "salary" is the corporate officer minimum of just over $26,000 a year for tax purposes. This would qualify me for the "lower" class.
But...I own the company. So I take a dividend from the profits as necessary, which usually amounts to around $40,000 a year or so. So this would put me as "middle" class.
If you consider all my company assets, my house, cars, boat, and savings, my "Net Worth" is well over a million dollars, making me "Upper"class.
This is actually one of the major issues with the current financial situation in the US. The current government wants to classify "anyone" making over $250k a year as "super wealthy", and wants to tax the hell out of them. Because my business is a Sub-S Corp (sole owner corporation), its business income is reported on my personal tax return. Because of this, I show an "income" of well over $250k a year, but my actual earnings are closer to $60k.
And to really mess with your results.....I drive a pickup truck, I love to hunt anything that tastes good grilled, I live in the "sticks", and I drive a dirt track race car for a hobby. I am as close to "trailer trash" as you are gonna get without wheels on my house.
Post by
gnomerdon
Hmmmm, I won't talk about my income because the things I do are frowned upon and isn't recorded.
But I can list my assets
I own
3 cars, a truck, a commuter, and a old sport car
a bike
a 700 dollar computer
I have a 30 dollar fishing pole
a 32 inch flat screen
ps3
guitar, amp, a chicken coop.
My current assets are only around 15,000. On paper, I am belong on the low end of the lower class.
T___T
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841598
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Post by
Perkocet
Middle class, but recently my mom bagged herself a rich one. So upper class for a little bit. :D
Post by
Thror
If I would compare my income to the numbers in the class descriptions, I would fall like, below the lower class. But in my country I am fairly middle class.
Post by
OverZealous
Just FYI - those descriptions were grabbed right off Wikipedia, and I believe they concern America specifically, and I'm sure the meaning of "Middle Class", for example, varies from country to country.
It still leaves room for interpretation, though : Upper middle class could be concerned both Upper and Middle class, so it's still not completely accurate without adding like 10 options.
Post by
Azazel
I wanted to be the first to reply yesterday, as it was my idea for the poll.
My internet died.
Anyway, my dad and mom both have medical jobs (doctor and nurse), but in Denmark they don't get paid as well as in like US, so we had enough money for furniture, computer, a tv and stuff like that. But not the newest and the best, not by a margin. Enough to have food on the table, but not to have the latest designer kitchen.
So yeah, I'm middle-middle class.
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Post by
Patty
Anyway, my dad and mom both have medical jobs (doctor and nurse), but in Denmark they don't get paid as well as in like US, so we had enough money for furniture, computer, a tv and stuff like that. But not the newest and the best, not by a margin. Enough to have food on the table, but not to have the latest designer kitchen.
So yeah, I'm middle-middle class.
That's skirting the line between 'lower' and 'middle', really. Middle class tends to mean that you have more of a disposable income, typically, which could be used to fancify the house more.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
When I was very young, I would have classified my family as lower class. My mother hadn't gone to college, and was a stay-at home mother of 3, and my father was in construction. Towards middle to high school, though, I'd have classified us as solidly middile class. After we were school aged, my mother started working again and went to night school to get her nursing degree. My father worked a lot of side jobs and extra hours, and moved up to foreman. Even after they got divorced, I'd say we remained middle class, and my mother eventually re-married an engineer.
I personally have gone from having a decent income, to having virtually no personal income while trying to start a business. I'd call myself middle class again now, though.
Post by
xaratherus
Based on the scale given, I have a lower-middle class salary. I think pegging middle class at $57k a year is probably a bit high. I also think that circumstances probably alter one's exact "class" placement.
For instance, a single male making $50,000 a year could live pretty luxuriously in many areas and, from an external perspective, would probably look upper-middle or low-upper class; make that a married male with a kid making $50,000 a year and circumstances change greatly..
Post by
pezz
But I think that's fair, xara. Having children (and especially allowing them out in public without sedating them) is, in my eyes, automatic grounds for thinking you have less class.
Post by
xaratherus
But I think that's fair, xara. Having children (and especially allowing them out in public without sedating them) is, in my eyes, automatic grounds for thinking you have less class.
Ba-dum-CHING! ;)
Post by
ZombieJesus
Well, my dad was a major in the army while he worked at a post office. During that time my mom quit her job and started a company with 2 friends. Money was good then, really good. But my dad quit at the army because he didn't like it anymore and then my mom got retrenched and company closed it's doors after 2 years.
That puts us where we are today.
Post by
Squishalot
Why exactly are you defining 'middle class' to be 'higher than average'? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the term?
Wikipedia or not, that's absurd.
Post by
OverZealous
Note that it isn't called average class, but rather middle-class; in-between Upper and Lower class. Besides, I copy-pasted the descriptions directly because they appeared to be the official(ish) definitions. Average class, I think, would be somewhere around lower-middle class, rather than middle class.
And there is a considerable leap between middle and upper class, I agree - but Azazel requested those three and I figured it would kind of defeat the purpose if I added any options other than the three he listed.
Post by
pezz
I usually think of middle class as higher than average. In Britain you have working class, middle class, and upper class. The middle class is generally pretty comfortable.
Plus, think of it this way. If you have a lot more working class people than middle class people, where is the average of all of them?
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