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> Calories

Yup.

> Computing, long distance travel, breadth and depth of entertainment choices, and disease

These have nothing to do with class, and I'm not even sure entertainment choices have gotten any better.

The US usage of middle class pretty much refers to access to goods and services, it isn't about class in a social sense.

You ought to read more Fussell: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-fussell-on...

I don't follow. I didn't say anything about whether the US has social classes, I stated that US usage of the phrase "middle class" tends to be about access to goods and services.

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