The left has succeeded in renaming the working class “Middle class”. The true middle class - entrepreneurs, land owners, doctor, lawyers, high level managers etc. earn from $250K to $1million or so. People who make $25 per hour ($50K per annum) are not middle class. They are working class. But in today’s America, anyone not on the dole is called “Middle class” and the true middle class are characterized as “The Rich”. The truly rich are the ones playing games with the rest of us; the Kerrys, Bushes, Pelosis, Kennedys, Soros et al.
An important point. If you sit in a cubical instead of an office with a door, then you are working class, per traditional ways of defining such.
I personally define "The Rich" by lifestyle rather than income. If you cannot afford to maintain at least one full-time household servant, then you are not rich.
A friend of my wife is somebody who I would consider being on the bottom end of "The Rich": she doesn't work a job, living on investment income inherited from her father. She has one full-time, live-in housekeeper plus two part time women who come in as needed. She lives in a mansion and goes on several vacations per year. And she's nowhere near Kennedy-style "rich"