I feel like food truck person who owns their truck and works it for a living is still working class.
Working class doesn’t mean you have a boss and don’t have a share of ownership in your work. If it did then everyone working at a coop would be petit bourgeois.
I think if you’re on the rooftops with a rifle shooting at protesters when the feds invade to stop people being mad about being murdered, your class has a lot of redemption to do before the poor consider you a comrade. What work have you done to that end, Mr. Shop owner? How have you helped the revolution?
Who said I owned a business? That sure isn’t my cup of tea even if I could afford it. I just know people who do. Some are pretty well off, others not. One of them went out of business this year. They had been scraping by for years and the downturn since Trump made them unprofitable so they saw no need to continue.
What have I done? Voted. Sent messages to my representatives. I’m not against more direct/aggressive action, but I don’t think that’s me. I’ve never been that way.
There’s an argument to be made that participation in the electoral system does have a social cost. I guess my preference depends on how/where you participate, and that’s really not the part I care about.
Tell me you know nothing about business without telling me you know nothing about business.
‘Poor’ does not mean ‘cannot afford to buy as big a house as I’d like’.
It doesn’t, but he’s equating any business owner as being part of the bourgeoisie. And that’s also false.
And there’s at least one billionaire who never showered¹ and died of preventable disease. As a class they still aren’t workers.
¹unfortunately becoming the norm.
I feel like food truck person who owns their truck and works it for a living is still working class.
Working class doesn’t mean you have a boss and don’t have a share of ownership in your work. If it did then everyone working at a coop would be petit bourgeois.
I don’t give two shits about business. I’m a worker, not an owner.
Tell me you know nothing about class struggle without telling me you know nothing about class struggle.
Tell me you know nothing about how solidarity is fundamental to successful class struggle
You have solidarity with those of your own class, not with your oppressors.
And you being vitriolic toward other people on Lemmy is not showing solidarity with those of your own class
Because the mom & pop shops are in the same class as the billionaire walmarts?
Compared to the riches people in the US, a destitute person and a millionaire have approximately the same amount of wealth
Are those goalposts heavy?
I think if you’re on the rooftops with a rifle shooting at protesters when the feds invade to stop people being mad about being murdered, your class has a lot of redemption to do before the poor consider you a comrade. What work have you done to that end, Mr. Shop owner? How have you helped the revolution?
Who said I owned a business? That sure isn’t my cup of tea even if I could afford it. I just know people who do. Some are pretty well off, others not. One of them went out of business this year. They had been scraping by for years and the downturn since Trump made them unprofitable so they saw no need to continue.
What have I done? Voted. Sent messages to my representatives. I’m not against more direct/aggressive action, but I don’t think that’s me. I’ve never been that way.
So nothing. That’s fine, but please don’t pretend you’ve seen poverty.
I never said I did. I can also do less, if you’d prefer.
There’s an argument to be made that participation in the electoral system does have a social cost. I guess my preference depends on how/where you participate, and that’s really not the part I care about.
Its the armchairing.
The armchairing about what exactly? This all spawned off a guy tossing all business owners into a single bucket and my having a problem with that.
Owning a business doesn’t automatically make you not poor.
Thanks for again telling me you don’t know anything about class struggle without telling me you don’t know.