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this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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They are objectively a small business owner its not really a larp its just a tiny business.
You're right technically, what I really meant was that they were LARPing as bourgeois. They're not bourgeois if they don't employ others. Without being bourgeois, "business owner" is a technicality and the only effect of using it to describe oneself is that it (attempts to) liken oneself to the actual bourgeoisie (the LARP). They are freelance photographers, not "photography business owners" because they make money by taking photographs, not owning a photography business.
Ik its a small detail but the petty bourgeoisie are defined by the characteristic that they have to work as well as owning their own means of production. The freelance photographer is technically petty bourgeoisie as much as it just means they have the privilege of exploiting themselves.
i think they would be the artisan class. they don't employ anyone, and there isn't a clear path they all follow to get there. it's likely their "business" will never expand beyond them. so they aren't affected as much by labor disputes or property stuff as the petty bourgeoisie. therefore they aren't as inclined to erratic change or reaction as the petty bourgeoisie. not that they don't have some reactionary tendencies on occasion. especially when they start getting proletarianized. this is a good article i read about that https://polclarissou.com/boudoir/posts/2023-02-03-Artisanal-Intelligence.html