Steve's barking the myth of a middle class

When this country was in it infancy, we didn't have a class society we had , merchants, rich and poor land owners, workers, who were either well off because they had a trade that was in demand, or not so well off, and then we had workers who just got by, and then there were slaves. Now what we tend to think of the middle as those who were had a trade, but I don't think that they saw themselves as middle class.
I don't believe that any one in this country thought of themselves as middle class till after World War II.
I venture to guess that some economist who had nothing better to do decided to coin the phrase middle class.
In economics would a truck driver making 75 thousand dollars be called middle class. What would happen if he made 35 thousand dollars would he still be middle class or 25 thousand dollars would that truck driver be called middle class?
What a a teacher in college, would a full professor be called middle class, but not an adjunct who might make only 25 thousand dollars not be middle class? What about the student who hasn't worked a day in  his or her life calling themselves middle class?
As I recall from my old history books in old European society you had the upper class , or royalty and land gentry, the merchant or the middle class and the poor or peasants with the tradesman falling some were in between the middle class and the peasants. That definition of class is so outdated.
Now my whole working life I always considered myself just above poverty till I was able to get to the point of lower middle income.
I see poverty today in the US as under $35,000 with no more then $1,000 in savings . Poor as under $50,000, Lower middle $55,001 till $75,000 middle income as $75,000 to $ $125,000. Then we have upper middle income to $ 400,000. Now we come to the income packets of well off, wealthy, extremely wealthy, rich, and for those who take showers only in money, filthy rich.

A classless society is not a communist idea, many though not all of America's founding fathers believed in a classless society.

I myself am extremely classless, I think it's  funny to pass gas at the kitchen table.