Loss of heads is part of. Economic collapse is another part of it.
You can't get rich anymore if there's no one with any money to spend.
Ultimately, way down there in the dredges, someone with not a lot of money needs to buy something that leads to money getting to you.
You can only hollow out the bottom so much.

No, it absolutely is a nonsequitur.

Liquidity is very different than "the economy".
If you add enough asterisks, they can be pretty analogous, but at the worst, they're almost entirely disconnected.

lol. Commenting with lol is lame... but I had to. lol.

Tens of billions of dollars?
The US pulls in almost 5000 billion dollars of tax money per year.

I don't think 10 billion dollars were going to change our "high gas prices" (I'm going to find that particularly funny if you're European) and "high tariffs" (I guess they're higher than the EU blank 20% on Chinese imports?)

I still think you might just be trying to swing your politics around.

Trying to lump "percentage of people in the Upper Middle Class", with "availability of $500" and calling it the economy is absolutely boneheaded.
My wife and I are about $100k a year short of what the article calls "rich", and yet my funds availability has fluctuated from nearly nothing to $80k liquid at any point in time depending solely on my consumerism.

So to call into question the dated surveys isn't asking anything about the economy, per se.
It's asking if the old pattern of consumerism vs. wages still holds true.
Which, just spitballing- it very well might not, simply due to increased interest rates, inflation, and tariffs.
Those things have certainly led me to buy less shit, which has increased my average liquid funds, in spite of no real change in my financial status.

I'm sorry, were you trying to go political with it?

It's good that Outlook adheres to the cosmological principle.

Well, it definitely moved the furthest distance humanity has traveled from the Earth ahead.
I have a feeling you're asking a purely values-based subjective question though. Can't help you there. Have you moved humanity ahead lately?
If you thought you had, would I agree with you?

Indeed. But the target of this propaganda lie is not people that can actually think. It is the MAGA cultists, that will claim everything is great while they are starving, dying from preventable disease and being homeless.

A dumb MAGA like you would not even be convinced by rock-solid evidence. You lack the two working braincells required.

You probably overlooked that this is for 3 (!) people. Dumb and dumber.

This is $133k for 3 people.

What you have trouble paying for your expenses and a medical emergency could bankrupt you? Its all just in your mind!

No cynicism required. The whole thing is a big fat repulsive lie.

It does not sound grounded in reality as well.

Indeed. The whole thing is MAGA assholes lying about reality.