I stand by my thesis that most westerners who own (as in at least mostly paid off) a house, car (not some 19 yr old trashcan), stock or have an increasing amount of cash in the bank or some savings account that is available, are in fact not fully proletarian.
Having grown up in an actual proletarian household, there were months where food was scarce or clothes had to be hand me downs instead of new. A huge portion of for example german youth has never known scarcity and the same goes for the boomers, genx and y.
The reason i say this is because a working class person who actually has to work and cant really lose their job or face dire consequences is in fact much easier to get convinced than the petty bourgois comfy office job types.
Imo, 5 digit sums of cash, newish cars and houses are means of production in a sense. And just because a full time worker doesnt rent our a spare room to exploit someone else does not mean they cant.
Feel free to disagree or counter with theory. I’m eager to learn.
I stand by my thesis that most westerners who own (as in at least mostly paid off) a house, car (not some 19 yr old trashcan), stock or have an increasing amount of cash in the bank or some savings account that is available, are in fact not fully proletarian.
Having grown up in an actual proletarian household, there were months where food was scarce or clothes had to be hand me downs instead of new. A huge portion of for example german youth has never known scarcity and the same goes for the boomers, genx and y.
The reason i say this is because a working class person who actually has to work and cant really lose their job or face dire consequences is in fact much easier to get convinced than the petty bourgois comfy office job types.
Imo, 5 digit sums of cash, newish cars and houses are means of production in a sense. And just because a full time worker doesnt rent our a spare room to exploit someone else does not mean they cant.
Feel free to disagree or counter with theory. I’m eager to learn.