That’s true but the point where a business becomes profitable enough that the owner doesn’t need to work anymore is usually when it’s either illegitimate, or not small at all. So I don’t know if the distinction is really worth making, it’s kinda like multimillionaire vs capitalist. Not all multimillionaires are capitalists, but it’s very rare to be one without being a capitalist.
It varies from industry to industry, but from my own experience I’ve heard of people making tens of millions who still have to pop in and drive a truck or handle a lot of paperwork if they’re missing personnel for whatever reason. Even if it’s not a regular thing, that would still fall under the Marxist definition of petite bourgeois.
No one making tens of millions of dollars has to do that. They choose to occasionally do that rather than hire enough workers to cover foreseeable gaps like someone getting sick or quitting, or simply hiring a manager who will do whatever they do, including occasionally pop in and do the productive work itself.
That’s true but the point where a business becomes profitable enough that the owner doesn’t need to work anymore is usually when it’s either illegitimate, or not small at all. So I don’t know if the distinction is really worth making, it’s kinda like multimillionaire vs capitalist. Not all multimillionaires are capitalists, but it’s very rare to be one without being a capitalist.
Businesses don’t really need to be that large for the owner to delegate the day to day business to a manager and sit back accumulating surplus value
It varies from industry to industry, but from my own experience I’ve heard of people making tens of millions who still have to pop in and drive a truck or handle a lot of paperwork if they’re missing personnel for whatever reason. Even if it’s not a regular thing, that would still fall under the Marxist definition of petite bourgeois.
No one making tens of millions of dollars has to do that. They choose to occasionally do that rather than hire enough workers to cover foreseeable gaps like someone getting sick or quitting, or simply hiring a manager who will do whatever they do, including occasionally pop in and do the productive work itself.