This is The Indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Adrian Ma.
And I'm Ricky Mulvey.
And Ricky, if I asked you what class you consider yourself, like are you upper class, working class,
or middle class, what would you say?
I'd say I'm a part of podcasting small but mighty middle class.
How about you?
Small but mighty, that is us.
Also consider myself middle class?
And maybe that's not a very original answer
because according to a Gallup survey, 54% of Americans consider themselves middle class.
Let me ask you this, Ricky.
How much money do you make?
It's a pretty personal question for a very public podcast is what I would say.
Don't worry, it's just me, you, and our listeners here.
I make somewhere between $10 and $10 million, is what I would say, just to give you a fair range estimation.
Okay, well, thank you for narrowing that down for me.
I think you might detect just a slight change in the air when I suddenly ask that question,
because frankly, in our culture, talking about income is...
You know, we worry what others