• @ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee
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    578 months ago

    I don’t understand why people pick on tradesman as if they’re somehow lesser than them.

    There’s lots of skill and knowledge that goes along with doing any trade.

    Also, while it’s back breaking work, and you often work overtime, construction workers make bank.

    This is an aged and outdated take that devalues the contributions of a very important job.

    All jobs are skilled labor.

    • Metal Zealot
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      218 months ago

      Everyone shits on blue collar workers until their furnace stops working, their pipes leak, their car breaks, their roof leaks, their foundation cracks, the wiring in their house gives out… Shit, it’s almost like their work is integral to their jaded-ass day to day lives

      • @zagaberoo@beehaw.org
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        78 months ago

        Entitlement seems to be a fundamemtal human condition. Look at how much traditional women’s work is looked down upon. Society is simply not possible without child rearing, yet it is seen as incomparable to wage-generating work.

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          8 months ago

          The fact that universal child care isnt available for parents is another disgusting insight into what the governments priorities are. Generations of people told that the true sign of success is to go to school, buy a home, have a wife and 2 kids… Then when they’re grown up, the game has changed completely.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      138 months ago

      Also, while it’s back breaking work

      This is why. It’s not so much “these people are dumb” as it is “you don’t want to have to do backbreaking labor the rest of your life”.