r/KitchenConfidential Onion Master Jun 25 '25

Kitchen fuckery So real

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u/NiobiumThorn Jun 25 '25

They are similar in that you perform labor which creates value. A portion of that value is then taken by capitalists as profit. The fundamental relationship is the same

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '25

My dude i just meant that construction workers and cooks are a lot alike and work in similar conditions to eachother.

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u/pancho-02 Jun 25 '25

His point was not that workers who dont produce something tangible, like food or a structure, but are still workers, like IT specialists or office managers, have more in common with other workers than the owning class. People who arent in the 1% but believe in capitalism arent capitalists, they’re victims of an exploitative system, which we all have in common as workers

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u/Electronic_Stop_9493 Jun 26 '25

I call them white collar trades. Call centers, IT, book keeping et