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Originally Posted by rubecube
No one is saying that we don't need those types of jobs or that people who work blue-collar jobs are somehow less valuable than jobs requiring a college degree. It's right-wing virtue-signalling whenever those arguments are tossed out. We're saying that the class you're born into shouldn't dictate which careers you're able to choose from.
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2 things
1) purely anecdotally, but as a consultant for a few years I have been a part of dozens of corporate companies and the general opinion on blue collar jobs by people with white collar jobs is that they're undesirable and beneath them - people who are plumbers are not valuable and they must be stupid because they dont have a desk job. this isnt an isolated case either, this is the sentiment of the vast majority of people I have come across in the corporate world
2) I agree the class you're born into shouldn't dictate what careers you can choose from, but I would say that if Timmy Jones has never gotten higher than 60% in any math class in his life, he should probably be steered towards something he might be good at instead of trying to square peg into round hole him into an engineering degree because its not his fault his parents were poor