If we're struggling to define it, I don't think the middle class really exists anymore. It's just the Wealthy, the Super Wealthy, the ELITE, and everyone else. Most of us are just everyone else. If you own a home, you're wealthy. If you own multiple, you're Super Wealthy. Anything more and FUCK YOU. Anything less and you're the majority of people in the US.

This isn’t even home ownership, it’s rent

lol it's not apparent. Go ahead. Enlighten us. Calling you out, bud.

complaining about relatively unskilled or low skilled pay.

Would love hear hear what jobs you consider unskilled or low skilled. Because it's not min-wage jobs like retail, customer service, food industry, etc... And even if it were, why do less skilled workers not deserve to earn a LIVABLE income? You think someone less skilled deserves to just live in their car?

Says the guy who's clearly never practiced a second of introspection. So sad.

Yeah ok. Based on how others have commented on your comments, it's pretty clear who's in the wrong here. Have a good one.

Oh wow, you learned how to stack clothes and put up with people, or how to chop up food and prep it very fast. Ok, that is skilled, but not a whole lot of skill.

Not a whole lot of skill? Compared to what? Why does it even matter when society needs people to do these things and without them you would have the convenience, nay, luxury of going out to eat. The "unskilled jobs" you're talking about provide you with the luxuries of your daily life.

Additionally, you're equating the importance of a job in society to the time it took to learn the skill and the complexity of the position. That's such an old mentality. To look down upon people who are doing jobs that you think are beneath you. Not a whole lot of skill? Ok, so you go do it then. Because if it's not a lot of skill, then surely someone of your caliber could do it easily and do it better. Conceited. That's how you come across.

I disagree. It does take skill and training to do all of those jobs well. You even said so yourself, it takes a month (time, which is training and practice, which requires skill in learning) to be proficient. Just because it's easier to train someone to work in customer service or retail than it does to become a doctor or an engineer, doesn't make those jobs less relevant or deserving of fair pay and livable wages. And if you disagree on those points, then perhaps you lack something that is critical for a successful society: empathy and caring about your fellow citizens.