Missing middle

In a functioning society money flows up through the classes and briefly into the hands of the owners of industry before being recycled back down. This circular flow ensures sustainability, which is why the current system in the United States is a grenade that gets more dangerous to hold each passing second.

The missing middle represents the polarity of poverty and wealth in this nation, stretching the middle class to the edges until there is no more middle class.

It is only a matter of time for a society that looks like an apple core to topple over