[coss]

Almost all blue collar employees (software engineers) are shareholders at Amazon.

[singron]

Software engineers are white collar workers[0]. As far as I know, hourly employees no longer get equity[1], and I would guess they comprise most of Amazon's blue collar workforce.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-collar_worker

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/03/amazon-hourly-workers-lose-m...

[coss]

Sorry, working class (as some have said) or white-collar would have been a better choice of words.

[dragonwriter]

> blue collar employees (software engineers)

Huh?

[WorkingClassSWE]

Working class might've been a better term

[richthegeek]

SE are not working class. At best they are at the top end of the middle range, and generally above 100k is considered 'upper middle'.

[cge]

The idea of SE as working class is from categorization based on labor relations, not on income.

In a Marxist-theoretic framework, for example, SE are clearly working class.

[dragonwriter]

Software engineers quite often have and derive substantial income from capital holdings; when they do they are, in a Marxist framework, of the petit bourgeoisie (the middle clsss between working class [proletariat] and major capitalists [haut bourgeiosie].)

But, yes, some software engineers are working class, as well, the profession largely being split between the proletarian intelligentsia and petit bourgeois intelligentsia.