[phone[phone]]

As painful as it is for some people to hear this - yes, $6 million in personal wealth is middle class.

If you have to work a 9-5 for somebody else to survive then you're working class, not middle class.

[encoderer]

That is not the traditional definition of middle class in the United States.

The traditional American dream was a middle class life: stable career, single income family, house in the suburbs and a nice pension check when you retire.

Fair to point out that that is a bygone era and maybe you do need $6 mill now, but maybe we need a different name than “middle class” to describe it.

[phone[phone]]

That is the original meaning of the term middle class - a class that does not need to sell its labor to a boss to survive but who is also not part of the idle rich crowd.

[encoderer]

In pre-revolution France, yes.

But not in the United States.

[phone[phone]]

We're rapidly approaching the pre-revolution France when it comes to income inequality and political division.

[encoderer]

Regretfully I would have to agree.