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id: wiki-2026-0508-bourgeoisie
title: Bourgeoisie
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status: verified
canonical_id: self
aliases: [Middle Class, Capital-owning Class]
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tags: [sociology, marxism, class-theory]
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# Bourgeoisie

## 매 한 줄
> **"매 capital-owning class"**. 매 12c French "city dweller" → 매 Marx 의 means-of-production owner → 매 2026 의 contested concept (knowledge worker, platform owner, rentier 매 blurred boundaries).

## 매 핵심

### 매 mechanism
- 매 ownership of capital (factories, IP, platforms).
- 매 wage labor 매 hire (proletariat 의 dual).
- 매 surplus value extraction via M-C-M' circuit (Marx Capital Vol. I).

### 매 historical layers
- **Haute bourgeoisie**: industrialists, financiers.
- **Petite bourgeoisie**: shopkeepers, freelancers, small-business owners.
- **2026 변형**: platform owners (Uber, Airbnb), VC-funded founders, IP rentiers.

### 매 critique 의 modern
1. Piketty (Capital in the 21st Century) — 매 r > g 의 capital concentration.
2. Platform Capitalism (Srnicek) — 매 2010s+ tech rent-extraction.
3. "Bullshit Jobs" (Graeber) — 매 managerial class 의 internal stratification.

## 💻 패턴

### Class-mapping in software economics
```python
# Toy model — capital ownership vs labor income
class Agent:
    def __init__(self, capital: float, wage: float, labor_hours: float):
        self.capital = capital      # owned assets
        self.wage = wage            # per hour
        self.hours = labor_hours

    def income(self, r: float) -> float:
        # r = return on capital; Piketty's central variable
        return self.capital * r + self.wage * self.hours

bourgeoisie = Agent(capital=10_000_000, wage=0,    labor_hours=0)
worker      = Agent(capital=0,          wage=30,   labor_hours=2000)
print(bourgeoisie.income(0.07), worker.income(0.07))  # 700k vs 60k
```

### Sociological data analysis (Wolff replication)
```python
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv('scf.csv')  # Survey of Consumer Finances
top_1 = df['net_worth'].quantile(0.99)
print('Top 1% own', df[df.net_worth >= top_1].net_worth.sum() / df.net_worth.sum())
# US 2024: ~30%
```

### Platform-owner detection heuristic
```sql
SELECT user_id, SUM(transaction_fee) AS rent
FROM platform_transactions
WHERE owner_id = :pid
GROUP BY user_id
ORDER BY rent DESC LIMIT 10;
```

## 매 결정 기준
| 상황 | Framework |
|---|---|
| Macro inequality | Piketty (r vs g) |
| Tech-platform critique | Srnicek, Zuboff |
| Cultural class | Bourdieu (cultural capital) |

**기본값**: Marx 의 ownership-of-means baseline + Piketty 의 modern data.

## 🔗 Graph

## 🤖 LLM 활용
**언제**: economic-class analysis, historical materialist framing, inequality discussions.
**언제 X**: contemporary US "middle class" colloquial usage 매 distinct.

## ❌ 안티패턴
- **Conflating "middle class" 와 bourgeoisie**: distinct concepts.
- **Static class definition**: 매 2026 platform/knowledge work 매 blurs lines.

## 🧪 검증 / 중복
- Verified (Marx — Capital Vol. I; Piketty — Capital in 21st Century; Stanford Encyclopedia).
- 신뢰도 A-.

## 🕓 Changelog
| 날짜 | 변경 |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | Phase 1 |
| 2026-05-10 | Manual cleanup — Bourgeoisie FULL content with class-theory frame |