You’re the second person I’ve seen recently make this distinction and I genuinely don’t see the utility, in your scenario an old retired lady with an antique shop that doesn’t turn a profit and has no employees has more social power than a billionaire CEO beholden to shareholders
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If you were an alien with a telescope and you couldn't read our pieces of paper and you just saw the actual material exchange of resources, you'd just see someone who was getting food and clothes and video games other people made without doing anything in return
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And a freelance self employed nanny is by all measures working class even if she lacks a traditional employer. Which is why I again don’t get the utility of this apparently new definition of social power.
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Well I would argue that the cash was almost certainly originally acquired by a capitalist and would be redistributed for that reason, but I still don’t think the person holding it is a capitalist because they’re not exploiting a worker.
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This might sound weird to say but I wish every rich person was the ineffectively investing idle rich example you posted instead of the ones that we have that are actively killing the planet in multiple ways at the same time.
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