Middle Class is a PR/Marketing Term.

The suburban parents are a part of an audience that benefits from and helps perpetuate capitalism. This is not to assign them fault with "how society is" rather an observation of how certain audiences lead to local policy choices. We are speaking to the blight of the "middle class" concept.

You either work for a living or you live from exploiting others working. To be clear, this does not include any welfare recipients; we have the production to feed people, so we should feed everyone. You either own your means of production or you work with someone else's. Tradesmen/artisans/merchants/bureaucrats/administrators are all a part of the working class; they serve the same role within our society: efficiency. They allow people to more meaningfully contribute to their society by freeing people/labor resources to dedicate their time to other education. You do not need to learn how to do a lil' plumbing and a lil' electrician work just to get by, you can rely on your local specialist. We all agreed it would be better to have someone perform these roles with more experience than everyday folks should commit to every skill.

The progression to machines/industrial revolution and our most recent method of organizing community/labor almost feels natural. It follows the same principle after all: if we specialized to trades, than wouldn't it make sense that (when technology aids administration/organization enough) we to specialize to working a machine to increase our individual productivity even further? The logic makes sense on its face; have we considered why? We aren't doing it to "better the lives of the least fortunate". It isn't even "better the lives of the majority of people".

Our objective reality is that our time commitment to the machine should have declined because we have already produced more than we need. It did not. That was the whole point for the move from "no specialization" to "trades specialization". What happened to the time benefit when we moved from "trades specialization" to "machine aided specialization"? It is inherent to the evolution of our labor patterns.

We have allowed this to be stolen from us. The Feudalism to Capitalism change in the 15th century lead to relative democratization of power from an extremely small Noble/Priest class to a (including some of the remnants of the Noble/Priest class) newly formed and larger Bourgeoisie class. This group started to learn from the past evolution/labour turnings. They realized that if they continued to openly oppress their immediate socio-economic subordinates, another turning would call for their bloodshed as it had come for their class's predecessor.

So they sold these same immediate socio-economic subordinates the American Dream. They said "join us petite bourgeoisie, the high-level: artisans, tradesmen, doctors, administrators, managers, and military officers. We will join together to ensure our new class, the capitalists, does not see the same fate as our class predecessors. Since we already included you and ceded some (figuratively) feudal claims, you better not get any big ideas."

This capitalist class now, as all "in-groups" do, has significant concerns with how it maintains its socio-economic position. They decided to employ the same strategy that worked on them. They are going to sell the American Dream to their managers, police officers, local politicians, teachers, and any other authority figure they could pay enough money to tow the line. This capitalist class said "join us and accept your title of middle-class. We will periodically need a select few of you to ascend to the capitalist class but only if you are really good! We will join together to ensure our new classes, the capitalists and the totally-temporarily-not capitalist class, does not see the same fate as our class predecessors. Since we already included you and ceded some (figuratively) feudal claims, you better not get any big ideas."

Then once you get into the business world, you find out that if you do not negotiate your position, you are probably getting taken advantage of. We all agree this is true in the world that the capitalists created (the business world) but we claim "no, I am too smart for them to get one over on me, the deal I got was good" regarding our socio-economic allotments without considering that the conservative approach is the easiest. Of course you think the deal you got was good, your pride won't let you believe otherwise and you don't have to DO anything to rectify it. This is not you the individual, rather you the larger audience. The "class" if you will. This is pacification by definition. Who is this "class"? The "middle-class".