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		heavyset_go on May 31, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging p... > In Germany an income of 80k EUR will put you into the top 10% of all earners, so you will be upper class. Upper middle class maybe. People in the upper class don't need to work.

MaKey on May 31, 2021 [–]

No, upper class if you go by the definition of the German Economic Institute [0].

[0] https://www.iwkoeln.de/en.html

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