Back in my political days, I was given the job of analyzing Canada's census to help my political constituency association get to know our residents, which should help win the election. The average household income was $37,000 at that time, which was a reasonable income.

A professional couple that I know were pulling in more than $100,000 a year. They called themselves middle class. I don't think I need to do the math for you to realize that the constituency must have had quite a few people in the $10,000 to $20,000 range.

BTW, my poltical party politely thanked me for the research and insights and that was that.

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You commented on my anti-doomer article, which was my first viral article after 3.5 years on Medium. I compiled some stats on the many responders. You might be interested:

https://medium.com/tiered-democratic-governance/synopsis-of-my-first-viral-article-5ce3e376c669

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It would be interesting to do some research on how many readers of doomer articles actually move forward somehow and how many readers just kind of give up.

As I read this stuff, it seems the doomers are giving their readers the license to give up.

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Time to read your link on parasocial tactics.