"I don't wanna lose these chains! They're all that I have!"
The person who happily answers "yup" to the first two questions isn't going to understand the meaning of "You're a worker."
Michael would definitely be the one to lack class consciousness, not Pam
Michael would be aware for everyone, but he would get it wrong constantly
"I DECLARE SOCIALISM!"
"...you can't just declare socialism."
Moreover, I think he'd be a pawn for a pseudo-communist, totalitarian regime. Draped in party-supplied luxuries, he'd still imagine himself a member of the proletariat and a champion for its cause. That's my take on a Stalinist version of the office anyway.
The last thing I want to hear is how great capitalism is - as told by someone that capitalism refers to as capital.
what's wrong with being a worker? Who is this post making fun about?
This post is not making fun of workers. Too often we see workers identify with rich capitalists and see their own lack of capital as a personal failing. But once we recognize the difference between the two classes we can dispel ourselves of that notion.
Members of the working class sell their labor in order to gain money and buy the necessities of life. The ruling class buys labor in order to see a profit on the money they already have. Since capitalism compels the capitalist to make a profit, they must pay the worker a fraction of the value that the worker creates. (The business owner wants to stay in business and the shareholders demand every-increasing value.) Hence we should not consider ourselves capitalists: we are workers who are being exploited, as necessitated by the system.
People thinking they're capitalists.
I mean, is "worker" considered a bad word?
The number of "capitalists" with a negative net worth and assets that generate little or no profit is astounding. They're just going through a hard time, though. They're going to be one of the few that makes it.
There is no such thing as middle class, you're either in the capitalist class or working class.
"There's no such thing as a rectangle, you're either a parallelogram or you're not a parallelogram."
The idea of a middle class has absolutely nothing to do with socialism analysis of class relations; it's simply a measure of quality of life.
A measure of quality of life quite vague and incalculable because as humans we tend to manage money poorly sometimes in our lives.
The idea of a middle class is just capitalist propaganda to get 9-5 workers who earn significantly more than blue collar workers but look like 0 along with other lesser paid jobs when looking at wealth chart that has Billionaires
Yes there is ... middle class are the people that believe there is a middle class, without knowing that they are actually working class
There is, but it isn't the liberal middle class that's some arbitrary amount of money you earn as a salary, but petty bourgeois or in other words small business owners.
They're in an unique position where they both own a business and live off of that income but are also forced to work in these businesses alongside their employees due to them not being wealthy enough to fully offload everything about it to the working class.
It's funny how corporations rebranded workers into collaborators and entrepreneurs, and ironic how many idiots fell for that. "No, I'm not a worker, I'm a COLLABORATOR!!"
I'm a mercenary, thank you.
So you want to change the name of ideology, that postulates free market relations as important part of human freedoms? Fine, it can be Classic Liberalism if you want.
i dont see why even communism would mean there are no free markets: in the most basic definitiv communism is (economically) a system in which the working people control the means of production. this could e.g. be achieved if all companies were work coops - thus workers controlled the companies and therefore the means of production if we dont change anything else there will still be a free market
I don't agree that capitalism is a good system, but I also agree that those who can work should work, because that's the only way society can function and get better.
If we were a hunter gatherer tribe and no one hunted or gathers we would die.
Just because we have cars and computers doesn't mean no one has to grow food or sell food or clean the water and build the houses.
From each according to their ability. To each according to their need.
I agree with the "to their ability" but not so much with "to their need"
If everyone worked to just sustain themselves, those left in the fringes suffer and die. We need people who are willing to work more than what they need to in order to provide for those who are unable to provide for themselves.
That's literally what that means.
Through technology we have become way more productive though. Every increase in productivity can either be used to better the standard of living (assuming that requires more work) or be used to lower the amount of time people have to work. I think the people that want to work just because they like it are a big enough portion of the world population to feed and house every single person on the planet. But instead, the increase in productivity is being gobbled up by a few people at the top. (see productivity / pay gap)
You can work without furthering capitalism. Not everything is for-profit.
There are ideological capitalists and capital holders.
There are people who are capital holders who are ideologically left economically, some instances as far as full socialist.
There are people who hold little to no capital at all but believe capitalism is the best possible system.
As a percentage of their respective classes though, the later class traitor is unfortunately more common than the former class traitor.
I think we can be both. Most of our pensions depend on it for growth.
Might as well put it with the rich people money, because they rule everything and aren't about to let that shit sink in the long term...
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.
I agree. I can nearly taste it.
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