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Without assuming an answer, the social status of physical labor should be elevated compared to where it is now. Ideally, the social status of the "email class"
by sinenomine 4y ago
Without assuming an answer, the social status of physical labor should be elevated compared to where it is now.
Ideally, the social status of the "email class" should be lowered as well, and no, I'm not talking about just programmers here.
- Animats 4y agoI'm waiting for the billboards on US 101 in Silicon Valley: Learn a Job GPT-4 can't do. Train for HVAC installation, plumbing, and electrician work at Palo Alto Adult School.
- loloquwowndueo 4y agoPlumbers charge a fortune, doesn’t sound like a bad career pivot. You’d be just dealing with different kinds of shit :)
- EntrePrescott 4y agoreminds me of a quote in the 1997 movie "Wag the Dog" (context: Stanley Motss, a Hollywood producer played by Dustin Hoffman, helps Conrad Brean, a political spin doctor played by Robert de Niro, to stage a war in order to cover up a presidential sexual-advances-to-underage-girl type scandal two weeks before the election): Motss: "It's all, you know, thinking ahead. That's what producing is." Brean: "It's like being a plumber". Motss: "Yes, like being a plumber: do your job right, nobody should nocice; but when you fuck up, everyone gets full of shit."