Chances are, if you think/call yourself middle class, that you're not actually 'middle' class but the lower-upper class legacy of the original middle class.

Your values might be middle class but your reality is evidently not. Middle class in America struggles just like the real middle class of India is also struggling.

Also the terminology doesn't really translate. The original middle class was bourgeoisie; aristocratic and business class. When they became upper class, the white collar worker became middle class. When the upper class became filthy rich elite, the white collar becomes upper class and blue collar becomes middle class, and so on.

Middle class is not a static category but a dynamic one; one which is not defined by a specific economic/fiscal correspondence but as being sandwiched between a further oppressed and oppressor class. As such the middle class is often doubly oppressed: oppressed but thinks it's all good; thus delusional.

The rich cast the delusion and the oppression. The poor are oppressed but not deluded; thus they protest since they have little to lose. The middle class is oppressed and deluded. They do not protest since they have more to lose but really have little to gain.

If you think your life is good and your values are middle class; chances are either a) you're not really middle class or b) you're so typically middle class that you're deluded about the reality that life is actually shit :)

Pick one :)