Old cars.
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Large amounts of debt.
Financial services as a percent of income, yes. That's a good one. Being poor is relatively expensive.
College. The middle class is too rich for aid but too poor to pay
Gambling
Transportation services
RVs
Recreational drugs
Horses and related services
This is fun, but I'll end this with the obligatory: There are two main classes, the ownership class and the working class. The lower and middle classes are subsets of the working class.
Lmfao
Gambling
[Poor People] Delusion of winning big VS [Rich People] Just enjoying spending their time throwing money away because they have endless supply of money
Transportation services
[Poor People] Having to ride a Bus because you can't afford a car VS [Rich People] Personal Driver driving you everywhete
Why does this come off as insufferable? Is it a tone over text thing? Is it me?
Oh I guess because a text-only forum loses the real life expressions.
Its more like: "Bruh 💀" - Like it's funny, but in a fucked up dystopian context, ya know what I mean?
Bicycles! Lower class uses them as transportation, upper class uses them for recreation.
You and I have different definitions of upper class.
Upper class have pelatons
We are part of the dwindling middle class & I ride an electric bike to work. So much cheaper than a car but so expensive for a bike, it seems a middle class thing. Though maybe living close to work is in itself an upper class thing?
Our city does a semiannual ebike voucher raffle thing with a large number of large vouchers (would cover the cost) for verified low income, plus a smaller number of smaller vouchers (still would be a big discount) for non income verified.
Lawyers
There are lots of middle class divorce lawyers
Legal services, fines, etc. I wish I had thought of that.
Cocaine
Eh, that's really for everyone.
I'd change that to "illegal drugs" as lower class can't usually afford cocaine that's not cut with fentanyl, but instead buy weed, shrooms, acid, meth, and other cheap drugs. Rich people, in addition to cocaine also have access to more of the designer drugs like MDMA, not to mention prescription drugs with a high street value that poor folks can't afford unless they're addicted to something like painkillers, but then they'll usually have to go the cheaper route of fentanyl
Crack cocaine use is pervasive among the lowest income folks in my area, as are meth and K2. And those people sure as hell aren't doing mushrooms or acid. My point is that cocaine use definitely has a bimodal distribution
Meth makes sense, it's cheap as fuck to produce. Cocaine? I thought that was so expensive nobody could support a habit unless you had essentially unlimited money.
It's more that clean is hard to find / expensive, and that you can fairly safely build up a tolerance and then burn/snort through a fuckton.
I'm pretty sure all you really need is a plant and some gasoline for distilling or whatever it's called.
Chlorine for water treatment. Cheap and useful where clean water is difficult to come by and where water is stored for long term use. Also very common to buy if you have a pool. But maybe for middle class households it is not as common of an item - except perhaps in areas were pools are common enough in middle-class homes.
Just a guess!
Rental properties.
also interesting: what are the differences in the kinds of goods throughout the world?
That's an intriguing take. Blackberries are expensive in some places. In others, you can just grab and eat them as you walk through the park.
Costco memberships and Toyotas, although I'll admit this is a pretty generous reading on "upper class"
These both seem like solid middle class purchases.