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Sends wife, 5 kids (!) and a freaking nanny to the US on Titanic (!), but does not identify as a capitalist...
? The old school definition of middle class was being able to employ a servant. Nannies also simply werent as costly at the time.
There are/were trades you could make enough of living without exploiting the value of other's labor through the ownership of means of production. Think a plumber or lawyer running a one man business, or equal partnerships.
And, of course, one can be both a capitalist and a victim of capitalism. Kind of a major socialist point in and of itself, that capitalism eats its own. In this case, one must assume he's blaming corporate greed for the sinking, the lack of lifeboats, the preferred treatment of 1st class passengers, etc.