If you’ve got a blue collar, you are much more valuable to society than if you have a white one. This is being proven in a very real way lately with how white collar work is literally an easier problem to automate.
Automation is trying to come for us all. And white collar workers are currently the prominent “beneficiaries” largely because so much blue collar work is automated that you don’t realize how much they have already been decimated. Metalsmiths, woodworkers, miners, steelworkers, car makers, plus all the service jobs eliminated by disposable consumer goods that used to be expected to last 50 years and now last 7, due in part to automated mass manufacturing.
If you’ve got a blue collar, you are much more valuable to society than if you have a white one. This is being proven in a very real way lately with how white collar work is literally an easier problem to automate.
Automation is trying to come for us all. And white collar workers are currently the prominent “beneficiaries” largely because so much blue collar work is automated that you don’t realize how much they have already been decimated. Metalsmiths, woodworkers, miners, steelworkers, car makers, plus all the service jobs eliminated by disposable consumer goods that used to be expected to last 50 years and now last 7, due in part to automated mass manufacturing.