No hate for the middle class. I can't help but enjoy the irony of people who thought they had solidarity with capital talking like Ned Ludd all of a sudden.
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Great.
Now describe the key difference from the socialist perspective between owning a small business and owning a small business's worth of stock in a dozen different businesses.
That is so far from your original labelling of creative laborers who are under threat by AI as bourgeois. What is your point?
That middle class is not working class by definition.
Keep up.
Okay chill with the smugness. The "middle class" has a number of mutually exclusive definitions so it would be helpful to clarify which you're using.
VFX artists, actors, graphic designers, writers, musicians, visual artists, etc. generally sell their labor to capitalists in exchange for a wage in order to survive. This is the definition of the working class. The widgets they produce are not lumps of coal or buildings, but the specific widget produced by labor does not affect economic class.