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According to Sridhar Vembu, in all modern societies, high-income individuals mostly try to build social ties with others belonging to the same status.
Sridhar Vembu said, ‘Dharma is this interconnectedness.’
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has shared an insightful post about class-based discrimination, which, according to him, has emerged as a growing trend in India. Vembu feels people nowadays are more inclined towards status and material growth, and it perhaps affects the bond between communities. He made the revelation after an X user asked how “money is diluting the sense of community instead of strengthening it”.
According to Vembu, high-income individuals mostly try to build social ties with others belonging to the same status. In this way, income-based circles have become a norm in society.
“In all modern societies, high-income people tend to socialise with other high-income people. Segregation by income class is far more common than ever before, and this is particularly true in urban areas where caste is nowhere as important as class in who socialises with whom,” Sridhar Vembu wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
The entrepreneur further highlighted how people are investing their mental energy more into competing for status rather than building connections through empathy.
“Easy to envy the neighbour going on vacation to Italy and be ignorant of the plight of a distant relative or a former teacher, or a security guard struggling to pay medical bills – out of sight, out of mind,” he explained.
Let me try: in all modern societies, high income people tend to socialize with other high income people. Segregation by income class is far more common than ever before and this is particularly true in urban areas where caste is nowhere as important as class in who socializes…— Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) May 4, 2025
Vembu linked the topic with Indian mythology, where “Dharma” encourages people to prioritise moral duties over anything else. “Dharma is this interconnectedness. Our personal economic progress uproots us, and we are no longer deeply connected,” he added.
His post went widely viral, with users sharing their thoughts in the comment section. One of them agreed with Vembu, saying, “This is exactly the truth. Class consciousness replaced ‘Kula-Jaati’ consciousness when the latter broke down, but could not form the newer community space because it is rooted in wanting more and an unhealthy sense of competition against one’s own.”
Echoing a similar sentiment, another wrote, “We have vilified the kula-jati system so blindly that we forgot it is natural. This class with evolve as a caste and replace the existing caste. Because the existing castes were also created like that, based on the lifestyle.”
Shedding light on the root cause, a person said, “In our education, unfortunately, there is not enough emphasis on ‘value’ in comparison with measures like marks, skills, communication, etc. This prevents us from being connected with our kith and kin.”
Vembu’s post has garnered more than 12,000 views and hundreds of reactions since surfacing on the microblogging site.
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Delhi, India, India
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