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Remind me, did anyone shed any tears when the horse-and-buggy industry went away? Or manual cotton picking? Why are "blue collars" people today special snowfla

Remind me, did anyone shed any tears when the horse-and-buggy industry went away? Or manual cotton picking? Why are "blue collars" people today special snowflakes who demand to be paid $50k/yr to push a button? And why are they, by and large, the same people that tell others to pull themselves up their bootstraps? I thought this was America, where we frown on "socialism". Yet it seems nobody has a more socialist mind-set than the average American worker lately. Funny, that.

jimmywanger 10y ago
> where we frown on "socialism" You're confusing socialism with economic protectionism. > Why are "blue collars" people today special snowflakes who demand to be paid $50k/yr to push a button? Hyperbole much? In their eyes, they are blaming a glut of cheap foreign labour, both offshore and onshore, for driving down wages and geographically relocating jobs from where they live. And it's funny that we're increasingly seeing this sort of attitude in tech, where we demand to be paid in the six figures for "pushing buttons".
- PopsiclePete 10y ago
  When you make a robot that can push the same buttons I'm pushing, you should definitely replace me. In fact, I'm working on automating as much of my work as possible, on a daily basis. I don't like repetitive, easy-to-mess-up stuff. And once we have AI that can write other AI's, then yes, we'd be obsolete too. I don't see an "attitude" problem anywhere - we are doing exactly what we've been doing since we were cavemen.