The middle class is being hollowed out as we speak. The gap keeps widening: wealth concentrates at the top, while pressure mounts at the bottom. There's barely any ground left in between. The old comfortable middle? It's fracturing into two extremes. You either break through to wealth or slip toward scarcity. The stable middle ground everyone used to count on—that's becoming a myth. The math is brutal: the system isn't designed to keep people floating in the center anymore.