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.
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.
I get confused. bourgeois = middle class
proletariat = working class
What is the name for the rich?
iirc bourgeois is non-aristocratic upper class. But i guess it depends heavily on the context
You could be right.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie
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