You seem to be under the impression people are complacent as workers and don’t want to own their own business.

I said that people don’t want to spend their money on starting businesses, rather they would prefer to spend it on buying houses. If you don’t have money at all, you don’t fit the conversation.

What exactly are you trying to communicate, if it’s not the implication that the working class is lazy and complacent?

The question was: Does the middle class want to return?

Being middle class brings the worst of being upper class and the worst of being working class all rolled into one. You have to work all day for “the man” and work all night for yourself. You are in a terrible position where you don’t (yet) have an overly successful business, else you could give up your day job and become upper class.

Living that life myself, I totally get there is also some joy. We wouldn’t do it at all without that. Being able to see something new come to life that other people love is an amazing feeling. But it takes an insane amount if grit to want to put up with the bad parts – and there are a lot of them! I don’t think the masses are into it. The working class is a great place to be for most people. There is good reason why the middle class is forever shrinking.

As I said in another comment,

I’m not sure middle class was ever much of an ideal. It was the outcome of us moving away from the time when most owned farms, with many of them starting to fail as we moved into the industrialization era, and their owners having to pick up jobs off the farm to stay afloat.

I do hope you get to live out your dream someday. But if we are being honest, it is not what most people are into. Maybe you think that makes them lazy or complacent. I think it makes them rational. You have to be a bit crazy to want to be middle class.