Please produce the evidence of the prole drift of the lower middle class in the US. That's your point isn't it, to wit, folks have moved from designing websites or something to flipping hamburgers? BS.
what am I supposed to do, start my own bureau of labor statistics?
I know some of these people, many actually. And I am not talking about web coders who learned HTML at night school after working at Starbucks. I am talking about real engineers - whose careers and skill sets have been tossed into the dumpsters.
The fact that the US lost 100,000+ development jobs. The fact that university programs in IT are 30% off on enrollment, nation wide.
"Prole" problems: Average private-industry wage paid has decreased over the last few years, and inflation-adjusted, has decreased since 1976 (!)