Guess I'm not middle class.

My life is over. Or rather, the life I thought I was leading was not real.

So says Paul Krugman. Sadly I cannot disagree.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/money-and-class/

"The sad thing is that our fetishization of the middle class, our pretense that we’re almost all members of that class, is a major reason so many of us actually aren’t. That’s why the growing appreciation of class realities on the part of the public is a good thing; it raises the chances that we’ll actually start creating the kind of society we only pretend to have."