[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.