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Originally Posted by polak
Blue-Collar/White-Collar is the wrong way of looking at it.
Plumbers, Electricians, Millwrights, the list goes on... These are all blue collar jobs that take significant investment in building up skills and knowledge.
Look at it as Unskilled/Skilled workers.
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Yeah, I would never call those people dumb, but it's a completely different set of skills and smarts than what you get by obtaining a university degree. A university grad is much likely to be better at reading and evaluating sources, understanding basic theory behind various policy positions, etc., because they've been trained to do so and graded on them accordingly. Now that said, if you're a "Cs get degrees" type of student, then the discrepancy probably isn't as great as would be between skilled tradesmen and a dude with a 4.0 GPA.