Shower thought: if everyone gives a % of their labour value to the government it’s called taxes and is evil communism. If everyone gives a % of their labour value to an individual it’s called capitalism and is glorious. How does that mental gymnastics work?

We are capitalist working in feudalist companies

No, you are workers exploited by capitalists.

Unless you are not selling your labour and instead living on the profit derived from the workers, you are not a capitalist. You just have Stockholm syndrome.

It’s a very simple system laid out in Das Kapital and still taught in economics today (at least in the UK):

Aristocrats - people with wealth by virtue of hereditary status (usually as land owners) Capitalists - people who have wealth by virtue of having wealth (i.e. they can invest/speculate) Worker (or Proletariat) - people who have to sell their labour to capitalists or aristocrats Lumpenproletariat - an underclass that has fallen out of society and resort to the black or grey market to survive