> According to Marx, there are two classes: workers and capital owners. You are most likely not, nor will ever be, a capital owner. Owning 50 shares in Amazon d

> According to Marx, there are two classes: workers and capital owners. You are most likely not, nor will ever be, a capital owner. Owning 50 shares in Amazon does not make you a capital owner. If you dervive your income from your labor then you are a worker. LeBron James is a worker. Patrick Mahomes is a worker. Taylor Swift is arguably a worker. Which class is the member of a mob family? If they’re not the one’s doing the killing are they the owner class? https://x.com/mualphaxi/status/1841148551646286258?s=46 https://x.com/mualphaxi/status/1841148551646286258?s=46 But more seriously, that Marx quote is too simplistic to model reality. For one, it ignores the fact that people are simultaneously in multiple different tribes (or classes), and that these change over a person’s life. One big one change is from the young class to the old class, where people change from being proponents of labor to being proponents of capital (including taxing labor to pay for old age benefits), and more broadly, to ensure social order because people get physically less capable and more dependent on a top down ordered society.