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by appplication 41 days ago
> you either work to put your bread on the table or you own things that put your bread on the table for you

I would propose a slight correction: you either work to put bread on the table, or someone else works to put bread on your table.

The capital return from investments does not come from the assets themselves, it is extracted from the labor of workers and from the externalization of costs onto public or shared resources, for which the working class ultimately, and disproportionately, foots the bill.

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> it is extracted from the labor of workers and from the externalization of costs onto public or shared resources

If that were true, then the laborers could generate the same returns without the capital. Which is obviously not true.

Working class, business class, investment class.