Can you (and your dependents, if you have any) live on your privately owned financial assets (= claims on surplus value produced by others) alone, without work (for yourself or others) and without Social Security (and the like that may be better called deferred solidarity wages)? That's the question that excludes most people from the ranks of the bourgeoisie. Most people have only their house, vehicle, & a little savings (that can support them perhaps for some months) to their names, if they have any assets at all. -- Yoshie
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