A drop in wages has meant that these families have moved down the economic scale.

【move】工资降低意味着这些家庭的经济水平下降了。

They were trophy cases and now they're sort of harbingers of doom, particularly as we slide down the economic scale.

它们曾经是奖杯，现在却是厄运的预兆，尤其是当我们的经济规模下滑时。

Is that the-so there's a bright line you can draw between-it's people at the lower end of the economic scale?

那是——所以你可以划清界限——是处于经济规模低端的人吗？