How do you define "capital"? I own a paid-off vehicle. That's my biggest single asset. Am I therefore evil? It's parked in the garage of this home I rent. Used car market right now means it's worth a bit more than it would be otherwise.

Oh, and I'm also a shareholder in my employer. Gasp!

All this talk is highly dangerous us-vs-them, black-and-white divisive crap that isn't going to go anywhere productive. Stop it. Grow up.

[–] EurekaStockade@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Owning a car is not bourgeois. Owning a business is.

If you could stop going to work tomorrow and still pay your bills because your assets are generating sufficient income to cover your expenses and still accumulate, you're in the capital class. If you trade your time and labour for income and quitting work would mean your resources will get depleted, you're working class.

And if you think that you're not working class because you sit in an office and work on a computer, then that's exactly what the ownership class wants you to believe so you'll be happy with your lot and not rock the boat.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How do you define “capital”? I own a paid-off vehicle. That’s my biggest single asset. Am I therefore evil?

Oh my god, we aren't coming for your toothbrush. The idea that owning anything makes you a capitalist is absurd. We are talking about businesses that alienate workers like yourself from their labor.

Oh, and I’m also a shareholder in my employer. Gasp.

And if you had enough shares to live off of you wouldn't be renting. You're a member of the proletariat, not even the petite bourgeoisie who still have more to gain by overthrowing capitalism.

All this talk is highly dangerous us-vs-them, black-and-white divisive crap that isn’t going to go anywhere productive. Stop it. Grow up.

Maybe instead of being afraid of shadows you should read what socialists actually believe. We believe that the means of production (aka your workplace) should be owned and managed by the workers (you) and not some board who see the business as a paycheck every month (and probably don't understand how it actually functions) overseen by a democratic body to coordinate between businesses. We claim to live in a democracy but nowhere is this more evidently wrong then workplaces, which are almost always run as dictatorships..what little political agency employees exercise has to be won in conflict to the goals of the system.

We oppose land commodification. People, especially children and the elderly, should not be at risk of being evicted from where they live, and if they have income they should just contribute to the collective maintaining and construction of property which is generally 5 percent of income, not 1/3 of a paycheck like it is under capitalism with all the middlemen leeches.