{"id":11314,"date":"2025-09-13T23:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/?p=11314"},"modified":"2025-09-13T23:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:26:29","slug":"class-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/2025\/09\/13\/class-structures\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Structures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ariel Durham <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The differences between owners and employees are in who controls the production. CEOs and owners live off investments and their employees&#8217; labor. Employees do not have any investments and are working for hourly wages. For example, the ceo for Uber ride share is the owner; he is not outside working, but his drivers are his employees.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">    2. Adam Smith is saying that no matter what machines or technology come about, human labor will always be around. They can only improve productivity by not thriving without humans. A machine can&#8217;t build a home; only human labor can produce this product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">   3. I agree that class is not a label, but it is a structural relationship. But I think it&#8217;s subjective person to person. You can be working a decent job, working for wages, and just barely staying afloat. If you&#8217;re a landlord or business owner, then you have the resources to stay ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">  4. It&#8217;s an unhealthy relationship where workers rely on the capitalists for jobs to earn wages, and capitalists rely on workers to generate revenue for profits. For example, you rely on your landlord for a place to stay, and the landlord relies on you for the income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariel Durham 2. Adam Smith is saying that no matter what machines or technology come about, human labor will always be around. They can only improve productivity by not thriving without humans. A machine can&#8217;t build a home; only human labor can produce this product. 3. I agree that class is not a label, but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-4-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11315,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions\/11315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}