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[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

*wage slave

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's funny how corporations rebranded workers into collaborators and entrepreneurs, and ironic how many idiots fell for that. "No, I'm not a worker, I'm a COLLABORATOR!!"

I'm a mercenary, thank you.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I don't agree that capitalism is a good system, but I also agree that those who can work should work, because that's the only way society can function and get better.

If we were a hunter gatherer tribe and no one hunted or gathers we would die.

Just because we have cars and computers doesn't mean no one has to grow food or sell food or clean the water and build the houses.

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[–] crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 30 points 2 days ago (17 children)

There is no such thing as middle class, you're either in the capitalist class or working class.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"There's no such thing as a rectangle, you're either a parallelogram or you're not a parallelogram."

The idea of a middle class has absolutely nothing to do with socialism analysis of class relations; it's simply a measure of quality of life.

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[–] brendansimms@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I read Thomas Pikettys Capital in the 21st Century recently, and it informed me on this topic. I still agree with you that those are the two most important class distinctions, but if I'm speaking with someone who is capable of nuance in the realm of socioeconomics I would give this statistic from that book: The top 1% own 30% of the wealth, the top 10% (which includes the 1%) owns 50% of the wealth, the next 40% (so not including those two prior categories) owns the rest, and the bottom 50% owns nothing. So there is now a patrimonial middle class that serves as a buffer between 'rich' and 'poor', but this statistical analysis doesn't really help with getting people aware of the fact that they are the poor and that they are poor BECAUSE a select few are outrageously wealthy.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes there is ... middle class are the people that believe there is a middle class, without knowing that they are actually working class

[–] commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

There is, but it isn't the liberal middle class that's some arbitrary amount of money you earn as a salary, but petty bourgeois or in other words small business owners.

They're in an unique position where they both own a business and live off of that income but are also forced to work in these businesses alongside their employees due to them not being wealthy enough to fully offload everything about it to the working class.

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[–] salty_chief@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

No I do not work. I use to work so guess I graduated to Capitalist?

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)
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[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago

I agree. I can nearly taste it.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 points 2 days ago

But you have a truck. A truck! Don't worry about driving for less than minimum wage as an owner-operator.

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