: SDF: Does your "employment" of the government net you, personally, a monetary profit?If you must ask, being that I am in the military, yes. A rather significant entry in the black, as I am in Bosnia. Rather lucrative, actually. *grin*
Although my interest in maintaining a strong stable state apparatus is more in the form of 'insurance' than in any direct gain. Not that I'll refuse the direct gain, of course.
: SDF: Do you charge interest on your loans?
Not in a direct sense. What I do is enable others to become more affluent, through investment. My 'return' is found through accomplishing more abstract goals, like being known as an 'asset' to my friends.
: SDF: To the extent you are a consumer of goods that you use, and not of labor-power you use in order to turn a profit, you are a member of the working class, as defined here
... which means that one can be a capitalist AND a worker simultaneously. The idea behind Marxism is to do away with the mechanism of capitalism, not with 'capitalists', per se.
And I still think it's counterproductive, in the full sense of the word.
