middle classes

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Now, similar debates are spreading across the developing world, as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and other companies rush to capitalize on growing demand for AI in places with newly emerging middle classes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

That’s because if high-income shoppers scale back their spending, then the other horizontal lines of the “E” — the lower and middle classes — may not have enough spending power to keep the economy afloat.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Decades of this have disillusioned the working and middle classes into expecting nothing can or will change, that it’s every man, woman and child for themselves.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

Demand is increasing in countries with growing middle classes, such as China, South Africa, and India.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2025

His operas would rip to shreds the comfortable and suffocating morality of the middle classes.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall