https://twitter.com/colinmdownes/status/1328716228245008386

  • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    you’re not working class if you own a business simply by working inside that business because most of your income is still derived from the economic value of exploiting your fucking workers

    So I’m curious, a guy who owns a fully automated laundromat where he’s the only employee a really just goes in every other day to clean the shitter and collect the change, he be I guess petite bourgeois?

      • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        seriously it costs me like 20 bucks each time I go

        Damn dude how much laundry do you have?

        But yeah you’re right. Was just trying to dream up some situation where someone could make money doing nothing in a way that doesn’t exploit anyone. Outside of like twitch steaming I mean.

    • Nuttula [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Similar to asking if you are still a capitalist if all your workers were replaced with robots that you occasionally have to plug into a wall. Yes you are.

    • ArmedHostage [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I went to check out new places because I'm moving by the new year, one duplex (an upstairs and downstairs) had a coin-operated laundry and was also charging for water utilities. It made no sense. At least it was only 50 cents for wash and dry per load.