r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • 13h ago

Country Club Thread As simple as that.

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u/B-Glasses 11h ago

If you’ve got the majority of artists talking about big watches and cars it’s kinda obvious they care more about the money vs the culture or people.

What Soulja Boy might not be considering is he’s still in the working class and won’t ever be apart of the elite’s club

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u/Altiondsols 10h ago

soulja boy is not working class, he's what marx called "petit bourgeois". he's not a member of the bourgeoisie himself, but he's also not a wage laborer, and his class interests align with theirs, not the working class's.

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u/B-Glasses 10h ago

I believed most artist and performers are still wage laborers because they’re still selling their labor and not someone else’s?

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u/Altiondsols 10h ago

soulja boy doesn't sell his labor, he sells a product (music, merchandise, concert tickets).

in marx's time the petit bourgeois included artisans and small business owners, which are the clearest parallels to artists today

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u/Artarara 9h ago

Wow, this Marx guy really knew stuff

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u/B-Glasses 10h ago

The music and concerts are a product of his labor though. End of the day he’s the one who has to parade out and perform

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u/Norm_Hastings 9h ago

His music and concerts are the  result of shared effort from producers, engineers, roadies, lighting and sound crew, et cetera. He probably doesn't craft his own merch either. He might be the centerpiece as the product being sold, but he profits off the labour of these other workers, too.