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Almost all blue collar employees (software engineers) are shareholders at Amazon.
by coss 7y ago
Almost all blue collar employees (software engineers) are shareholders at Amazon.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> blue collar employees (software engineers) Huh?
- WorkingClassSWE 7y agoWorking class might've been a better term
- richthegeek 7y agoSE 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 7y agoThe 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 7y agoSoftware 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.
- singron 7y agoSoftware 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-collar_worker 1: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/03/amazon-hourly-workers-lose-monthly-bonuses-stock-awards.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/03/amazon-hourly-workers-lose-m...
- coss 7y agoSorry, working class (as some have said) or white-collar would have been a better choice of words.