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We need to stop using the term "middle class."
Back in the day, middle class meant Archie Bunker/Al Bundy supporting a family of four with one job.
Today it's two college graduates struggling to keep up with the bills.
We're in Tsarist Russia; a huge mass of serfs, a small set of professionals, and an aristocracy that controls 90% of the wealth.
I wanna see those college graduates struggling with the bills. I know artists, PhD students, unqualified workers and else who have this problem to some degree. I don't know anyone with a college degree and 3+ years of private sector experience struggling. We can debate wth is with the stagnant real wages, but certainly nobody with a decent degree is struggling. Or only by choice.
What I know contrary is people with any IT related degree, or businessy degrees, or STEM grads going into consulting, etc. And all those people earning enough to support a family of 3 way before hitting their 30s, yet being single and enjoying that income all by themselves . They then pay insane rents in the cities, travel, go out for dinner every other night, maintain some random portfolio of ETFs, buy groceries at organic-only groceries, and so on.
So, yeah, wages been stuck for a looong while. But if you struggle to make the ends meet with a college degree it's on you.
Hello. I have 4 years of private sector experience. Living with someone else who also does. Both STEM and paid above average for the place we live in (Portugal). Rent is half our bills.
Living alone outside not in a cube and in any place that resembles a city is but impossible. 40 years ago we'd be higher middle class.
You live in a developing country that has "recently" ended a straight of dictatorship. Your previous government did everything possible to fk up your rental market to the point of it having one of the worst salary-to-housing ratio in the world.
40 years ago you would've been unemployed cuz there was no private sector.
At the same time, with your background you wouldn't even need to move to Germany/France/Nordics to fix your situation. You could move to fuckin Poland and you'd get your housing needs sorted out.
When I say "by choice", for Portuguese folks it means staying in their country. You have an EU passport. Use it.
"Just move dude, trust me, one more move and this time you'll find affordable housing. Yeah, just uproot your entire life and move all your belongs and family and its so easy guys. Just load everything on the metro that heads straight to Poland and you'll be fine, you dumb idiot I can't believe you haven't thought of this."
Lol. Lmao even