Silicon Valley Has a Caste Discrimination Problem

[Universe]

Dalit Indians working at U.S. tech companies tell VICE News they try to hide their identities to avoid caste-based discrimination they thought they had left behind.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3...nation-problem

[JamesBond007]

California in general is a shithole that has a caste system in general. It is what liberals want to turn America into. California has a return of the bubonic plague between large swathes of Los Angeles and San Francisco that is how backwards it is. More people shit in the streets of Los Angeles alone than in Calcutta India.

California caste system :

Dukes: overlords whose wealth derives from IPOs, undertaxed stock grants, and capital gains, who leave the so-called 1 percent in the dust and dwell in the most exclusive slices of the state’s most exclusive zip codes.

Earls: mere decamillionaires who seem rich by ordinary American standards but who can barely afford, on a million a year, their house in Seacliff or Pacific Palisades plus two private school tuitions, the right cars, and a home in Tahoe or, if you’re old, Palm Desert.

Knights: highly paid servants—lawyers, managers, mid-level bankers, support staff (public relations and investor relations above all)—who help the wheels turn but don’t do anything that generates real profits. Knights share the same tastes as their overlords but have a much harder time paying for them and so struggle to afford neighborhoods and lifestyles they deem worthy of their status; many go broke in the attempt and end up leaving the state in shame.

Burghers: if we were to apply Plato’s “divided line” to contemporary California, we’d draw the first and fundamental division between the above three categories and these humble four, below. A California burgher earns in the low to lower-middle six figures, a sum that used to make one comfortably middle class or even upper-middle—and still does in the American parts of America—but barely allows one to hang on in California. If a burgher owns a home, she either inherited it or super-commutes from a distant exurb; forget about saving for retirement, or for anything, really. This class is shrinking fast
—in the private sector it’s almost entirely gone—and Haute California has not even begun to think through what happens after the last teacher and firefighter move to Missouri or Montana after selling their house following the repeal of Prop 13.

Indentured servants: H1-Bs and the like who serve the tech oligarchy; they’re decently paid, though not nearly well enough for a middle-class standard of living anywhere near where they work. Everything they have, they owe to their lord, and they know it.

Serfs: this category is mostly made up of recent immigrants from Mexico and (increasingly) Central America, who work the fields for a lot less than H1-Bs get for writing code. They live mostly in formerly middle-class, if not particularly elegant, Valley towns. There is a serf class in the coastal cities, too, who do all the menial labor, especially cooking and cleaning. The one advantage to being a serf is that you can actually afford to live within striking distance of the California you serve; the downside is that you live in very crowded conditions, often in dirty and dangerous parts of town. No one around speaks English, but for this class that’s not a problem, since they don’t either.


But at least serfs work, something that can’t be said for millions of other Californians and “homeless” from other states who come west for the sunshine, welfare, and—in some California cities today—government-provided drugs and booze. No joke, look it up. Sadly, this class also includes many of the serfs’ children, who have no recollection of escaping grinding poverty in Oaxaca or San Salvador and finding California a promised land, but who instead compare their California lives to those in the classes above them, resent their lot, and seethe that it’s the result of racism.

This is largely copy and paste from a new book I'm reading from Michael Anton called "The Stakes", btw.

[AdrianV]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3...nation-problem

Not surprising. I wonder how the Dalits originally made it to the USA? My guess is that the upper class Indians brought some over as servants, but likely lied on visa applications and included them as family members.

[wvwvw]

Dukes=Indians

Earls=Jews

Knights= Anglo-Americans

Serfs= Greeks, Slavs and other lower races