From The Telegraph: Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’:

Sir Keir was asked whether “someone who works but gets their income from assets as well, such as shares and property” was a working person. He told Sky News: “Well, they wouldn’t come within my definition. I think people watching this will know whether they’re in that group or not.”

I would absolutely love to people operating within the federal government who had no interest in helping out people who make their money by robbing the fruits of the labor of those who actually work. If you think that this is a hard leftist position, I’ll remind you that the granddaddy of capitalism, Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations:

“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. The wood of the forest, the grass of the field, and all the natural fruits of the earth, which, when land was in common, cost the labourer only the trouble of gathering them, come, even to him, to have an additional price fixed upon them. He must then pay for the licence to gather them, and must give up to the landlord a portion of what his labour either collects or produces. This portion, or, what comes to the same thing, the price of this portion, constitutes the rent of land, and in the price of the greater part of commodities, makes a third”

Everyone person who gains their wealth from rent-seeking behavior is an economic parasite.