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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
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No. He could drop working and have a comfortable life. The owning class chooses to work as a way to excert power and accumulate even more wealth
A lot of people in upper middle class choose to work to accumulate more wealth. And “as a way to exert power” is may be true for some, but not for all of them.
If living off of your assets without working is possible to you you are not working class. It's that simple.
So what's "possible"? You mean could they take a 1/50th pay cut and survive on like 30k a year from their investments? Possibly. That certainly doesn't make them "owning class" though
No what makes them owning class is because they own their means of income, they don't have to work for it.
So what about people who have some investments but also still have to work? Or whose standard of living would seriously decline if they did not work?
Those are trans owners.