Annie Lowrey: America is becoming a class-based society

Members of the upper-middle class, as those viral stories show and Reeves writes, love to think of themselves as members of the middle class, not as the rich. They love to think of themselves as hard workers who played fair and won what they deserved, rather than as people who were born on third and think they hit a triple. They hate to hear that the government policies they support as sensible might be torching social mobility and entrenching an elite. That elite is them.


https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/the-hoarding-of-the-american-dream/530481/