Rich people are literally just lying about being good at money btw
Things like overdraft fees, late fees, parking tickets, fines, subscription renewals, legal fees, penalty fees, sales and discounts, lawsuits - these are things that all cease to matter in any material way once you have enough money
To Jeff Bezos, a parking meter, a plane ticket, and a private jet all effectively cost the same amount of money: none
#exactly and this is the definition of “rich” that makes sense to use when comma eating the#it's not people who have a savings account it's people who have shell companies#and barely notice when they lose more in a day than you'll make in your life#it's not people with employees they're responsible for; it's people with employees they think of as commodities#people for whom a fine isn't a punishment but something to be worked into the budget#people for whom “acceptable losses” includes how many people can die before it interferes with profits
-via @madseance, get peer reviewed, 100% agree
Money in your savings account is something everyone should have.
The fact that not everyone has money and a savings account is the result of violence, deprivation, and the deliberate decisions made by the less than 100 people who own half of the world's money
Millions in a secret savings account in the Cayman Islands, though? That's a very different story.
getting very sick of these vibes-based anarchistic quantitative definitions of "rich" it's not "when somebody uhhhh money more than me but only when BIG money" it's somebody that owns the means of production, period. the bourgeoisie's existence is by a direct relation to property, not by having some arbitrary designation of Wealth.
Respectfully, have you considered that, at least to some of us, "eat the rich" and "the bourgeoisie" do not at all refer to the same people?
Anyway I do have a concrete definition of "the rich" for "comma, eat the" (which is to be clear a meme and a phrase, not a literal recommendation, because I am, as an anarchist, categorically anti-death-penalty). It's $1 billion.
Why? Well, for one, the difference in order of magnitude. For another, that's the unit society is going with already, and I have no interest in waging a completely unnecessary war against public opinion when there's an easy line in the sand.
Meanwhile, "the bourgeoisie" is a technical term, a historical term, and a slang term, and altogether has so many different meanings that entire libraries of ink and entire fields of thought have been dedicated to its definition, meaning, and implications. It is also a term that significantly predates the birth of Karl Marx by over 100 years. It has many meanings that evolved over time, and claiming that there's some one absolute meaning is both reductive and blatantly false
Anyway, personally, I'm tired of overly online communists telling me that people deserve to be killed and imprisoned for such wealth as like (assorted real life examples from people I know who survived communist dictatorships). owning a small general store, or their own small business, or a farm that employees a few other townspeople and treats them well, or a small local vineyard and restaurant, or being a doctor, or being an artisan, or being an academic, or being a wealthy artist/writer, or owning any property at all
I'm also tired of people assuming that artists and craftspeople and academics (historically artisans, craftsmen, and academics were all considered part of the French middle / merchant / business / artisan class that the term bourgeoisie referred to during the 1600s and earlier) are opposed to the interests of the proletariat class or communists, like my university didn't have TAs and graduate student lecturers and research assistants who were literally homeless
So, yeah. I did, in fact, base this on actual thoughts, thanks
