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Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line.

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FlyingCircus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I don’t know why everyone is avoiding the Marxist terms, as they are far more accurate than low/middle/upper or whatever people are talking about in this thread.

Those wealthy workers are petit-bourgeoisie. They own enough capital so that they no longer have to struggle in the rat race of capitalism, but not enough to be controlling entire industries or multibillion dollar companies like the bourgeoisie.

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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Initially wanted to say petit bourgeoisie isn’t the right term here but now the more I think about it, yeah?

It doesn’t really fit the normal examples of petit bourgeoisie but economically I think they are in the same place even if they are not small business owners or sole traders.

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some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I thought petit-bourgeois made their money through assets? So they aren’t workers. High earners are still proletariat if they are selling their labor.

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