You think they’re hiring you because you’re white? Nah, they’re hiring the dude whose dad golfs with the CEO. And if you’re not in the right tax bracket, you don’t even exist to them.

Except to the degree whiteness is part of being “default”, which is a desirable trait in a hire, along with personal familiarity. If they ever become too aware of this, a rich, educated, culturally assimilated but brown token hire is a likely outcome.

And let’s not pretend this is just a white people thing. A lot of wealthy people of color are just as classist. Sometimes worse. I’ve seen Indian millionaires in the U.S. and in India treat working-class people like absolute trash. Same with rich Latinos, rich Black folks, rich Asians. They’ll look down on people from their own communities like they’re somehow better Look at really bad and oppressive countries: the powerful and the rich are doing everything in their power to make their own people’s lives worse.

It’s true, class has been a default characteristic of everything beyond a basic hunter-gatherer society.

To do a bit of a nerdy digression, it is totally different in other place (or times, 1930’s rich guys were openly racist). In North America, there has been a conscious effort to separate it from things like race, religion, gender and sexual preference. Other places that’s not necessarily so, there might be more than one equally dominant group, and they might track something like caste that doesn’t even exist in the West. But yeah they definitely still do classism.