Sure The Middle Class Is Shrinking: 30% Of Americans Are Now Too Rich To Be In The Middle Class (Worstall, 2016, Forbes.com. )  Quote:  " I would be unhappy if some number of people were getting richer because others were getting poorer. However, that appears not to be the case. . . That slight decline in the bottom incomes is because these are market incomes. The changes and expansions of the welfare system have more than made up for that over those years. So, all incomes are growing, and some are growing faster than others. . .  The truth is that the American middle class is shrinking.  But the major cause of this is that large parts of the population are simply becoming too rich to be considered middle class anymore. And I think that's great. I cannot bring myself to complain about 30% of Americans now living better and richer lives than their forbears did. Besides, isn't that what we're all actually trying to achieve? We should be celebrating the evidence that we're succeeding."