• TheWoozy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I would say that he’s an aristocrat complaining about the uppity bourgeois. Many of the tech worker he’s talking about are upper middle class.

    • abraxas@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      The modern usage of the term Bourgeoisie typically does not reference “the middle class” but “the owning class”. The wealth distribution of capitalism has changed since the 1780s.

      Remember, in France there was a time where being a successful business owner had a ceiling because you couldn’t easily buy power with money, so you were “middle-class”.