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[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

also i'd bet money "owned a fish market" here means they were rent-seeking from fishmongers, so they're not even a little bit petty bourgeoisie.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Given this is the 1950s, it's probably not even rent-seeking, I'm guessing the guys family was literally a small mafia extoring people for "protection money" lol. Like what else could "owning a fish market" entail?

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I assumed renting out booth space (like a convention or fleamarket).

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Thing is where I was born to this day open air markets weren't really owned by anyone. So like I assume the present day relationship has rentiers, but that particular relationship is relatively recent. So the violent process which privatized the markets and charged a rent (which was probably a protection racket of sorts) is likely relatively recent and that family was likely directly involved