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Is this a reference to Amazon being disproportionately Indian?

America has a caste system too but we call it "class" typically to make it seem more meritocratic. In conversation we typically focus on the exceptional cases of economic mobility rather than the rule. I did use caste on purpose to draw the parallel to India, a place where Britain famously used the caste system to rule.

That's a little bit intellectually dishonest. Class mobility does exist, albeit more rarely than it should, and unlike places with enforced social systems, you can't tell someone's social class by their name or clothes.

Class is also a generalization: I'm a gainfully employed SWE, and I (by choice) live in a neighborhood where I hear gunshots nightly. I don't own any new clothing, my nicest pair of shoes are my work boots, and my friends are almost entirely blue-collar people. I could easily afford to live like an upper-middle-class yuppie, but I border on lower class at first glance.

Is class entirely economic, or is there a social aspect?

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