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		mao_tse_tung on Oct 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I accidentally saved my company half a million dol... Correct, is way worse. Proletarians don't have any capital to lose. Capitalists do. So if they lose their capital, they can just be like the rest of us. If we (proletarians) lose our job, we risk poverty and death.

anonymouskimmer on Oct 30, 2023 [–]

> So if they lose their capital, they can just be like the rest of us.

Nah, if they had enough capital to live off of before then, they are far more likely than us to fail upward into a management job.

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