The middle classes harbor an ever-increasing feeling of abandonment and injustice. "Too rich to be poor, and too poor to be rich’, summed up Nicolas Sarkozy well.
Now the great crowd of neither rich nor poor, never "armoured", too quickly "broke", this crowd which bears the full brunt of cascading crises, administrative whims and galloping inflation, is constantly growing, feeding, material losses. This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 58% left to discover. Flash sale -70% on digital subscription.