Overview
- 41% say they live worse than their parents, 55% perceive the middle class is shrinking, and 63% report cutting regular consumption.
- Two-thirds place themselves at the lower edge of the scale, with 34% identifying as lower middle class and 34% as upper lower class.
- Six in ten respondents say their jobs allow them to subsist rather than progress, underscoring stalled upward mobility.
- Using INDEC data and PensarLab thresholds, the study estimates 43% of households as middle class, 52% as lower class, and 5% as upper class.
- The report describes a shift from the ‘aspirational’ to the ‘sacrificial’ consumer, with essentials such as private health plans treated as last to cut and a more demanding middle-class electorate taking shape.