I know a number of people from truly lower class backgrounds in tech including some that have built substantial startups. It isn&#x27;t as though they wear a &quot;lower class&quot; badge so that they are easily identifiable. Nor do they generally talk their lower class background -- when has it ever been socially cool to literally be rural &quot;trailer trash&quot; in America? No one likes to identify as a low status member of society.<p>A lower class person can hide in plain sight in tech because everyone assumes that if you are in tech you are not lower class, and no one checks your papers at the door. One of the motivations for someone from the lower class going into tech is so that they aren&#x27;t perceived as lower class. They sure as hell aren&#x27;t going to draw attention to that fact.