50wordstories.ca » middle-class https://50wordstories.ca/blog "Brevity is the soul of wit" -- Shakespeare Fri, 03 May 2013 19:31:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Economic Equilibrium https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=298 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=298#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:59:40 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=298 By 2052, an economic process that had been going on for centuries suddenly reversed.

Before, the middle class had been shrinking, mostly increasing the ranks of the poor.  Now, the middle-class is growing.  Very few poor or rich are left.

Charity now has a new meaning:

Four give, and four get.

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