• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    If you work for a living, and being unemployed indefinitely would threaten your survival, you are part of the working class. Owning a few crumbs of capital is a nice cushion, but does not define your class.

    If your income is passive, and you could live your whole life off the returns from your investments without ever actually working, you are part of the capitalist class.

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      8 months ago

      That can’t be true. I’ve done the math on my living expenses and it would only take a few years of saving in a high interest account for me to be considered a capitalist under that definition. if social mobility was truly that easy no sane person would be against capitalism.

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        8 months ago

        That doesn’t sound plausible like you said. Either you’re way off the average living expenses/wages or have your formulas wrong.

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        If it only took you a few years of saving, you make enough and spend little enough as a proportion of that that you’re outside the average.