workingclasshistory:

On this day, 16 June 1531, England’s King Henry VIII modified the vagrancy laws he brought in the previous year, which were key in creating the working class. People kicked off communal land who were not in wage labour were designated as vagabonds, and on their first offence were to be whipped, then on the second whipped with half an ear sliced off and upon a third offence they were to be executed.
This shows that we, being the working class who have nothing to sell but our labour, is not a natural state of affairs, but one which was created over an extended period of time with massive state violence.
This short introduction to capitalism explains their importance in creating a dispossessed working class: https://libcom.org/library/capitalism-introduction
Pictured: Contemporary illustration of the punishment of a vagrant in Tudor England https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1452229701628842/?type=3