Is "Chained CPI" a 50 year plan to put the former American middle class in chains?

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. Not really, no

"working class" has a pretty clear meaning and is well-understood, sociologically (the fact that Americans specifically don't understand it because the American working class think they beling to the bourgeoisie is something else; it doesn't mean that it's a term devoid of meaning); socialism is also well-understood (as being a more or less mixed economy with some state or collective ownership of the means of production, see nationalised industry in postwar Europe for instance); and the proletariat are the broad class of wage-workers who have no ownership of the means of production and whose only tradeable resource in the marketplace is their labour (which is, mostly, the broadest part of the so-called American "middle class&quot .