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Small business owner was the original middle class, "bourgeoisie". Ben Franklin was a member of the middle class,and he believed that middle class -- where anyo
by fjsolwmv 9y ago
Small business owner was the original middle class, "bourgeoisie". Ben Franklin was a member of the middle class,and he believed that middle class -- where anyone could take a vacation to run for government office -- was essentially to democt
Im modern world, the working class started being called middle class so they woul stop complaining about their poor lot in life.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Small business owner was the original middle class, "bourgeoisie". “Business owner” was the original (well, feudal) middle class named the “bourgeoisie”, they became the capitalist upper class (with the same name.) Small business owners (more particularly, those who live by applying largely their own labor to their own capital) are the middle class (“petit bourgeoisie”) in the original descriptions of capitalist economies. > Im modern world, the working class started being called middle class so they woul stop complaining about their poor lot in life. No, the higher income subset of the working class got called the middle class to forestall the development of common working class identity.