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Originally Posted by elphenor
merchants were kinda the equivalent of what we're talking about here in Marx day, and from what I understand, they're not considered properly part of the bourgeois
they're the "small bourgeois" who eventually lose out to the proper bourgeois
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The small merchants you are referring to would also fall on the owner side of the worker/owner distinction. The particular flavor of "bourgeois" you decide to label them doesn't seem pertinent to that distinction.
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Originally Posted by elphenor
it's not the money Im drawing attention to, it's that shopkeepers and artisans don't make money primarily off of their capital
that's reserved for landlords, shareholders, entrepreneurship
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They make their money through owning a business in which they are the sole shareholder. That's called being an owner.
You can say but they put in work to make it successful but that's fundamentally different from doing so for a wage for a business that you don't own.
An professional athlete who makes all their money from the league once again is in fact more a member of the proletariat than said shop owner.