[zmgsabst]

You didn’t address my example:

> Eg, lawyers were never part of the proletariat — yet they also need to work to survive.

Please do.

[danbolt]

I guess it would depend on the particular lawyer, don’t you think?

Or, if the work from their clients (labour power) is sustaining them, they’d be part of the proletariat, but if they’re able to get by from the labour of others or capital they own (eg: investments, articling) then they wouldn’t be. Does that make sense?