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Calling a job that involves sitting, thinking and typing as “blue collar” is fairly ignorant. It sounds like you’ve never held a blue collar job and if you did
by pfarnsworth 9y ago
Calling a job that involves sitting, thinking and typing as “blue collar” is fairly ignorant. It sounds like you’ve never held a blue collar job and if you did you would realize how amazingly easy a job like programming actually is.
- throwawayjava 9y agoNot all blue collar work is back-breaking manual labor, although most blue collar work that's soft on the body also pays poorly. And not all white collar work is higher paying than blue collar work. A lot of this is more about social standing/perception than earning potential or type of labor.
- pfarnsworth 9y agoNothing of what you said disputes what I said. Programmers are well paid and have a high social standing compares to real blue-collar jobs. Programmers are in no way blue collar jobs.
- throwawayjava 9y agoMy point is that "blue collar" is not a static description, and there is no One True definition passed down from the Gods of Social Class. > Programmers are well paid and have a high social standing compares to real blue-collar jobs Neither of those is universally true, and it's not even clear to me that they're true often enough to justify your generalization.
- pfarnsworth 9y agoYour assertions are completely unfounded.
- throwawayjava 9y agoSo there is Devine scripture defining "blue collar"? Or what? You'll have to be more specific. Your current comment is equivalent to "you're an idiot"
- pfarnsworth 9y agoThat's exactly what I wanted to say without breaking HN rules.