Elites I refer to are top 0.5% of the population, people with 7-figure incomes who can afford a sheltered lifestyle (and
must afford it, lest they get kidnapped and beheaded). Typically they are businessmen, but also there is the occasional (corrupt) politician, judge, prosecutor, mafioso, etc.
The "middle class" in Brasil is very small compared to the US or EU, less than 10% of the population, those are the people with 6 figure incomes (or a bit more than halfway there, ~50'000), and also the ones with intellectual occupations such as professors, etc.
The bottom 90% is comprised mostly of nonwhites, and 1/3 of them are single moms on welfare, 1/3 are their babies and the other 1/3 are the dudes, typically wageslaves working hellish jobs just to survive (like me).
If you want to understand what is wageslavery, picture this: 1 month rent of a tiny apartment in basically any capital city costs about 1 month of minimum wage. But the only jobs available are minimum wage jobs, and the only place they're available is the capitals. Result: youths go to a capital, share a 2-bedroom apartment with 6 guys, so they can have a bit money left to pay for food. Once they get a bit fat, they buy a motorcycle and stop eating (can't afford gas + foot), so they move outside the city where the rent is cheaper. But the amount they save on rent they spend on gas + motorcycle lease. And it goes on and on. It's truly slavery.
