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In order to call yourself a capitalist, you have to own capital.
It doesn't qualify if you have a mortgage to your capital or debt to your capital. You have to own the thing or property outright and completely in order to say you have capital.
The majority of us are not capitalists because we don't own capital.
We may advocate for it but it's like arguing for your banker to stay perpetually wealthy and even more wealthier through your debt.
Nah "capitalist" in this sense just describes what economic policy the person supports. Same way socialists in the US don't need to have an equal ownership in the means of production to be considered socialists.
No, a capitalist is a person with a particular relationship to the means of production and their continued social reproduction.
If someone uses it to mean they support an economic and political mode of organization where those people are in charge that’s fine, but it doesn’t stop meaning the first thing.