There was a guy who said that sex workers are definitionally petite-bourgeois because they own “means of production” (their own bodies).

I feel like at this point, this person has just lost the plot entirely. Modern leftists are so good at jerking ourselves off to trying to define in superfine detail what person is in what class, etc etc

Reading Marx and Engels, it seems like these guys didn’t get too caught up in the definitions. In Capital, I really get the impression Marx considers the “working class” to broadly be workers in factories, farms, on the streets, and servants quarters. And then you have a capitalist class and maybe petite bourgeois. That’s a lot of people who are left undefined but I really don’t think Marx is trying to put every single person into a category.