The Myth of the Middle Class

In America, it came to mean: security. Financial security.

Locked in.

House, car, insurance payments—check. College $$ for the kids—check. Two, three weeks’ vacation a year—check. That kind of thing.

Of course, was the company Dad was working for secure? It sure as hell wasn’t, in the auto industry, once Japan entered the scene in the 1960s.

And nothing stays the same. A middle class worker (or anyone) should be GOING SOMEWHERE. Not just sitting in the same place for the rest of his life. He sho...