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I read it more like "workers" being the ones who actually produce the good stuff, and "the boss" as being the entity to stick it to (as explained in the classic film "School of Rock").

They can tell him he can't use the IP he created. That may not be precisely a "boss" but it's a powerful constraint on his freedom.

You can make a case that the relation with creators and media/publishing is,in formal structure, more petit bourgeois/haut bourgeois than proletarian/bourgeois, but even if strictly the class dynamic is different, the essential dynamic is broadly similar between those who do the work and those who purchase it and functionally, if not strictly necessarily, provide access to the broader market.