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I am looking at these people, and while they make money (or they try to convince investors they do), they seem poor (the guy fake-punching on instagram with a red "rent's due" t-shirt is the most honest representation of the business model). I don't know what the word for them would be, but they are the equivalent of vassals in a feudal system with a license to make some money (perhaps, if they are lucky with timing and escaping all the angry investors) in a pyramid scheme that has the original owners of all these properties sell-off big time (they are the people who actually made the money in this story...)


The term that applies here is "petite bourgeoisie". They are nominally rentiers, but without the scale of economic control given to the actual bourgeoisie by their relationship to the means of production.




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