[Olog-hai]

The question really is, what are “upper-class expectations” to you? I don’t know too many middle-class folk that eat beluga caviar from gold plates on a daily basis, after all; no royalty even from the middle ages is envying them.

[Alberta's Child]

Get rid of everything in your life that didn't even exist fifty years ago, and you'd be shocked at how much bullsh!t you have in your life that does nothing but drive up the cost of living for a "middle class" existence.

Today, you could probably live comfortably with the standard of living commensurate with a "middle class" family in the 1960s with a job that pays about $10 per hour.