What is considered "Middle Class" in this country?

[funinspace]

You guys are making this wayyy too complicated.

If you are flying around in your personal private jet.....you are not middle class. No one in the middle class owns their own private jet.
Or if you are begging at the street with a sign around your neck for food....you are not middle class either. Middle class people don't go hungry.

Everyone else is middle class. And if you make more than you spend you are middle class and rich.

You don't need a lot of numbers, tables, and graphs to figure this out...

^This is one of those rare times, that I quite agree with your post. In the US, the above explanation is probably about as good as any. Not that this argues against your post, but a middle class person could own a Cessna (or equivalent single engine plane); but this is just minor details...

As Playball40 is also in the US (and the thread is titled: What is considered "Middle Class" in this country?), I'd say bilby's fixation on class/status as related to the meaning of 'middle class' is largely irrelevant to how Americans perceive this term. What American would call Justin Bieber 'working class', let alone 'middle class'?

 

[Gospel]

I'd consider Justin Bieber working class if he has to release more albums and go on tours in order not to lose his standard of living. People like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates & Warren Buffet can go on a round trip to Mars (which costs a lot of money itself) and return to earth richer than when they left.

 

[funinspace]

I'd consider Justin Bieber working class if he has to release more albums and go on tours in order not to lose his standard of living. People like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates & Warren Buffet can go on a round trip to Mars (which costs a lot of money itself) and return to earth richer than when they left.

Uhm...Bieber's net worth is about $285 million, and has a $30 million Beverly Hills property...he doesn't have to do anything he doesn't feel like bothering with...

That includes about $6 million from sales/streaming/radio just in 2020.
Ref: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9602078/musician-us-money-makers-highest-paid-2020

 

[WAB]

It is complicated by the question of whhether “middle” is average or median.

The people who want the middle class to be large and oppressed consider it median. The people who want the middle class to be small and refined consider it average.

Many people who consider themselves “middle class” are in the top 5% of income earners.
Many people who consider themselves “middle class” are living paycheck to paycheck in a double-wide.

(Assuming by “this country” you mean USA, since I don’t hear much about “middle class” from non USAians)

You're absolutely correct, Rhea.

Which points to the real answer:

There is no such thing as class. Class doesn't exist.