[VanDeKoik]

in essence, an indictment of American capitalism. “

Capitalism is a tool. No more, no less.

It was about how corporations and government are working together to plow under the middle class, and leave them as just cogs in a nation that doesn’t belong to them anymore.

I will admit, it made me think

[Alberta's Child]

At some point in my adult life I began to question the whole idea of a "middle class" entirely.

It occurred to me that this "middle class" was largely a creation of a political/economic system of the industrial age -- when industry was wedded to government to create and maintain a working class that would never have come into existence on its own.

With that in mind, I'm not so sure this thing we call the "middle class" is: (A) real, and (B) a good thing.