忆昔中产全盛日 今朝衰颓思无涯

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        概述：BBC把英国社会分成了七个阶层，中产阶级包括其中。
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David Boyle
Mark Littlewood
Selina Todd
Oxford University
Orient Express
Boden-clad
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But first, a recent BBC survey identified seven different social classes, including an established middle class. That is a wealthy, large and gregarious group, scoring highly on cultural capital. Well, I've got a man sitting right here who thinks that's just completely wrong. David Boyle, at the New Economics Foundation, doesn't see the middle class as wealthy or gregarious. He argues that it's been killed "stone dead" and he's identified the murderer. Just like on the Orient Express, it wasn't one killer, but several, unaffordable house prices, greedy banks, the me-first scramble for good education, extortionate child care costs, and plundered pensions. All of them took a turn stabbing the knife into the Boden-clad chest of the middle class. Well, David's with me here now. He's carried a bag of organic rice cakes - carefully stashed away, along with Mark Littlewood, director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and down the line, we also have the social historian Selina Todd of Oxford University.
David, in the 1990s, there was a lot of middle class unemployment. In the 70s, middle class savings were being eaten away by inflation. In the 30s, everyone was a lot worried about losing their servants. The middle class has always been under threat.在最近的一项调查里，BBC把英国社会分成了七个阶层，毫无疑问，其中包括中产阶级。该群体占了很大的人口比重，他们富有、爱交际，并在文化资本方面获得了很高的评分。但坐在我旁边的某个人却对此不以为然，他就是来自新经济基金会的大卫·博伊尔。在他看来，中产阶级“死得很惨”，而且正如在“东方快车”上一样，“凶手”不止一人——高不可攀的房价、贪婪的银行、为了受到良好教育而展开的自私的争夺、高昂的育儿费以及被削减的养老金。这些因素合在一起，像匕首般刺进中产阶级的胸口。大卫此时正和我坐在一起，他拿着小心翼翼保存着的有机米饼。经济事务研究所的马克·利特伍德以及牛津大学的社会历史学家塞琳娜·托德也在我们的节目中做客。
大卫，在20世纪90年代，许多中产阶级失去了工作；70年代，中产阶级的存款被通货膨胀逐渐吞蚀；而在30年代，每个中产阶级都担心会失去仆人。这样看来，中产阶级的生活总是受到威胁。