The person who happily answers "yup" to the first two questions isn't going to understand the meaning of "You're a worker."
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2025
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"I don't wanna lose these chains! They're all that I have!"
The last thing I want to hear is how great capitalism is - as told by someone that capitalism refers to as capital.
what's wrong with being a worker? Who is this post making fun about?
This post is not making fun of workers. Too often we see workers identify with rich capitalists and see their own lack of capital as a personal failing. But once we recognize the difference between the two classes we can dispel ourselves of that notion.
Members of the working class sell their labor in order to gain money and buy the necessities of life. The ruling class buys labor in order to see a profit on the money they already have. Since capitalism compels the capitalist to make a profit, they must pay the worker a fraction of the value that the worker creates. (The business owner wants to stay in business and the shareholders demand every-increasing value.) Hence we should not consider ourselves capitalists: we are workers who are being exploited, as necessitated by the system.
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People thinking they're capitalists.
I mean, is "worker" considered a bad word?
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There are ideological capitalists and capital holders.
There are people who are capital holders who are ideologically left economically, some instances as far as full socialist.
There are people who hold little to no capital at all but believe capitalism is the best possible system.
As a percentage of their respective classes though, the later class traitor is unfortunately more common than the former class traitor.
lmao OP thinks this is some kind of eye opening epiphany or something. Workers know they're workers, what they need is the realization who represents them and who is the enemy.
wheres that meme about right wing memes vs left wing memes
Michael would definitely be the one to lack class consciousness, not Pam
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I think we can be both. Most of our pensions depend on it for growth.
Might as well put it with the rich people money, because they rule everything and aren't about to let that shit sink in the long term...
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