Petit bourgeois are small business owners, family-owned small farms, landlords with only one or two properties, etc. People who are technically members of the capitalist class but don't have much actual capital and don't exploit much labor to turn a profit.
Labor aristicrat is really just an antagonistic term, referring to members of the working class who are materially privileged enough that when the proletariat comes into conflict with the bourgeois, they often side with the bougies. I've heard it used to describe everything from programmers to the entirety of the working class in the US and Europe.
I think the PMC is real as a distinct subset of the working class that emerged post-WWII. But the problem is that a lot of people here think the PMC is static, when really it's collapsing back into the larger working class milleau. Hence the gnashing of teeth at knowledge economy workers when they're stable and the spiteful laughter when they're not.
The only thing to add to @TheFreshestHell's explanation is to be boug you have to own capital. Petit just means they don't own much (think small business owners and smalltime landlords here).
Journalists rarely own capital. Hell at this point they're barely labor aristocracy.
The rare individual cases where a journalist is bourgeoisie, it's almost certainly gentleman farmer-type situation (they don't need the wage) and there's nothing petit about them.
I mean, every podcaster this site stans, even Adam Johnson, is petite boug. The irony of a thoroughly-privatized media industry owned by neoliberals is that you need to have your own operation to create content that advocates socialism.
What's the difference between petit bougies and labor aristocrats?
Petit bourgeois are small business owners, family-owned small farms, landlords with only one or two properties, etc. People who are technically members of the capitalist class but don't have much actual capital and don't exploit much labor to turn a profit.
Labor aristicrat is really just an antagonistic term, referring to members of the working class who are materially privileged enough that when the proletariat comes into conflict with the bourgeois, they often side with the bougies. I've heard it used to describe everything from programmers to the entirety of the working class in the US and Europe.
Labor aristocrat is how I would explain many working musicians, a disgusting number of them are just the most ignorant libs.
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That sounds like PMC then lol
Pmc is a liberal term imo
I think the PMC is real as a distinct subset of the working class that emerged post-WWII. But the problem is that a lot of people here think the PMC is static, when really it's collapsing back into the larger working class milleau. Hence the gnashing of teeth at knowledge economy workers when they're stable and the spiteful laughter when they're not.
lol that's how I feel about PMC
at least labor aristocracy highlights the material interest involved vs. immaterial nature of the work being done
last thing to note, describing journalists as labor aristocrats was a mistake. I think I used it as a gentler correction to calling them petty boug
The only thing to add to @TheFreshestHell's explanation is to be boug you have to own capital. Petit just means they don't own much (think small business owners and smalltime landlords here).
Journalists rarely own capital. Hell at this point they're barely labor aristocracy.
The rare individual cases where a journalist is bourgeoisie, it's almost certainly gentleman farmer-type situation (they don't need the wage) and there's nothing petit about them.
I mean, every podcaster this site stans, even Adam Johnson, is petite boug. The irony of a thoroughly-privatized media industry owned by neoliberals is that you need to have your own operation to create content that advocates socialism.