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We've all just got to do our part! (slrpnk.net)
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[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 84 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I have a plan. Bear with me here. Requires only a cursory understanding of basic construction and late 18th century French revolutionary methods.

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm a woodworker by trade! Would my skills be of any use in this endeavor?

[–] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A woodworker who actively dislikes the hypocritical and predatory exploitation of lower class people and who is willing to do his part to save us? Are you Jesus?

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

Why not have fun a make a YouTube video of a Rube Goldberg machine that ends with a recreation of Itchy and Scratchy scene.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 9 points 8 months ago

I didn't think the wood part is the problem. The big metal bit is a real head scratcher.

[–] elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The French Revolution was mostly a bourgeois revolution tho.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

There's only two classes. Working and wealthy.

If you can't afford to live without working, them you're working class. If you could quit your job and maintain a decent lifestyle, you're not working class anymore.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I get confused. bourgeois = middle class
proletariat = working class

What is the name for the rich?

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

bourgeois = middle class

iirc bourgeois is non-aristocratic upper class. But i guess it depends heavily on the context

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You could be right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.

~~It is possible that the meaning of "middle class" has changed. So Musk is middle class, but the lawyer or pizza shop owner are not.~~

Edit: shit, I should have read farther. Bourgeois is used in multiple ideologies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

The two classes are the proletariat, who make up the majority of the population within society and must sell their labor power to survive, and the bourgeoisie, a small minority that derives profit from employing the working class through private ownership of the means of production.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I believe the trickier part is physically getting our hands on them