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Capital income and labor escape velocity

Capital income and labor escape velocity

How many people have escaped the working class?

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Carl Beijer
Sep 23, 2021
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I’ve spent a lot of time over the past year or so taking on the bizarre and often cynical theories of “class” being floated on the right. And understandably, whenever I do this, I always encounter the same question: Okay, so how do you define class?

In brief, I agree with Marx that we have to make a basic distinction between people who do not have reliab…

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