[sverona]

That's a high horse you've gotten on. "Proper definitions" are subjective. Marx's definitions of proletariat and bourgeoisie --- colloquially, working-class and owning-class --- survive today more or less unchanged. In French bourgeoisie means something else. In Rome, thousands of years ago, proletarius meant something else. Definitions are social objects that change with society.

The folks that deploy this terminology today largely work in exploitative jobs at corporations owned by people with more money than they can dream of. They are forced to suffer because someone else owns the infrastructure. The same phenomenon happens with nonfree (gratis, but not libre) software full of adverts and dark patterns. YouTube, for instance, is what it is because Google has fuck-you amounts of storage to house everyone's videos and makes enough money to offset the cost of that storage. It's not hard to imagine a free (libre) alternative. That's all I'm saying.