😂

I gave you a link to a basic introduction of what capital is, but instead of engaging with the material, you say “it’s just a meme.”

https://www.sba.gov/business-guide/plan-your-business/fund-your-business

Yes, you are proletariat now. I too have vacillated between proletariat and petit bourgeois over the years, sometimes an employee, sometimes a freelancer, and sometimes a business owner with employees. Class isn’t a measure of income or a vibe, it’s one’s relationship to capital.

it insists on this 1800s argument/fantasy about factory workers. In an age and economy where 70% of people work in the services sector.

It insists nothing of the sort. It makes no difference whether one labors for manufacturing industry wages or service industry wages. Either way one is proletariat, selling one’s labor to the bourgeoisie for survival.

I seized my means of production.

Congratulations, you are now petit bourgeois.

Every industry and business empire ultimately starts with clever individuals working very hard on ideas

That is the flowery idealist narrative that the capitalist class relentlessly promotes, to the point that you’re now promoting it for them, but in fact each one starts with capital.