balderdash@lemmy.zip to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 10 months agoWe are this close to class consciousness 🤏lemmy.zipimagemessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
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minus-squareGorilladrums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·10 months agoYou can be both a capitalist and a worker… Not only that, but being a capitalist doesn’t necessarily you’re giga rich, it just means you think favorably of capitalism as an economic system.
minus-squarebalderdash@lemmy.zipOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-210 months ago it just means you think favorably… By that logic, a literal slave could be a capitalist so long as they believe in the efficacy and morality of capitalism. That doesn’t even track the layperson usage of “capitalist”. edit: Apparently this last claim is false.
minus-squareGorilladrums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·10 months agoIt’s as if words can have more than one meaning
You can be both a capitalist and a worker…
Not only that, but being a capitalist doesn’t necessarily you’re giga rich, it just means you think favorably of capitalism as an economic system.
By that logic, a literal slave could be a capitalist so long as they believe in the efficacy and morality of capitalism.
That doesn’t even track the layperson usage of “capitalist”.edit: Apparently this last claim is false.
It’s as if words can have more than one meaning