What makes someone upper class, middle class, working class or poor

  Poor is defined as lacking enough money to live comfortably in society. Working class is defined as the social group consisting of people who are employed for wages, esp. in manual or industrial work.Middle class is defined as the social group between the upper and working classes. Rich is defined as having a great deal of money or assets. Popular opinion believes that poor people probably make less than $10,000 a year, working class makes anywhere from $10,000-$40,000, middle class make $50,000 to $500,000. Now middle class ranges so high because there are different sections in the middle class: lower middle class, middle class, and upper middle class. What makes someone upper class or rich is when someone makes $500,000 a year or more. It is usually the middle class and upper class that discriminates against the working and poor classes.