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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ My theories:
1. A slowdown in immigration
2. A bias against blue collar type work. After all, we are increasingly a society of desk workers, managers, administrators, consultants who all have to send our kids to college to have a future. Who wants to be a carpenter?
I’m not saying I agree with any of this, but it does appear the way our culture has evolved over the past 30 years
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I think you are on the right path. There is some bias against manual work, but part of that is likely due to the actual physical effects that work has on you. I’ve known lots of older plumbers and carpenters with severe, chronic pain from their careers. I’ve also seen it lead to drug and alcohol abuse, maybe that has biased their kids.
Maybe people just think it’s “uncouth”, but the politicians and the media definitely treats these workers with more reverence than other, more common, jobs. The perfect example is how much time we spend talking about coal jobs while Arby’s employs more people than that entire industry.
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