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“Middle classes, this ignored majority”

2024-02-19T18:51:37.094Z

Highlights: 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.


THE FIGARO EDITORIAL - The middle classes harbor an ever-increasing feeling of abandonment and injustice.


It is these “too many” that exasperate them, these so-called “too many”, in a reality that is constantly reduced by the “less”.

If economists struggle to determine the right indicator to define the "middle classes", reality does it very well: those who know full well that they will not benefit from any system belong to the "middle classes", 'no aid - or very little -, because they are systematically above, just above, the solidarity thresholds, so, precisely, that they contribute ever more to the financing of public generosity -

"Too rich to be poor, and too poor to be rich”,

summed up Nicolas Sarkozy well…

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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…

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