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> wonder if that sort of empathy was so plentiful when the automation was shredding the prospects of farmers, miners, truckers and other blue collar workers Ye
by perryizgr8 4y ago
> wonder if that sort of empathy was so plentiful when the automation was shredding the prospects of farmers, miners, truckers and other blue collar workers
Yeah I remember the whole "learn to code" movement that mocked people who were losing their jobs.
- kybernetyk 4y agoAnd when it was about journalists losing jobs, it quickly got banned as "harassment". By the same people who a few years earlier made fun of blue collar people who lost their jobs. Maybe this is the "learn to weld" moment?
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 4y agoCan you give some sources for the "learn to code" thing? I only remember that it was a reaction to the people who wanted to change open-source (perceived as "destroying from the inside") without giving concrete solutions.
- 7speter 4y agoSearch for it on quora