The evidence can be found in the data, which shows higher unemployment for workers in business services and a lower one for people who work in manufacturing.
America’s job market increasingly appears to be splitting into two tracks, economists say, alongside a steady demand for skilled workers and a flagging interest in hiring more “knowledge-based” professionals.
The evidence can be found in the data, which shows a higher unemployment rate for professional and business services workers, and a lower one for people who work in manufacturing.
“It’s a buyer’s market for brain and a seller’s market for brawn,” said Aaron Terrazas, chief economist at the jobs and workplace search site Glassdoor.
Oh, cool, looks like I left blue collar and got a college degree just in the nick of time.
Software can’t replace blue collar workers without expensive robotics. As AI improves, this will only get worse.
All the practical to automate physical/blue collar jobs have already been automated. Anyone who’s job doesn’t require interacting with the physical world is who’s at risk for automation/AI nowadays.
They’ll keep creeping in as long as people support the business model.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/18/24130997/kernel-ai-robot-vegan-burgers-potatoes
Sweaty blue collar labor requires vastly more skill than any white collar job.
I don’t think you can generalise white collar jobs that way. I’ve done both, and writing software all day takes way more out of me than when I did manual labour. But some white collar jobs don’t require much effort at all. I wish it was easier to balance using your brain and your body for work.
I’ll agree with that, really what I meant to get it is that there’s no such thing as unskilled labor and folks belittle specifically blue collar labor often. Divisive of me, so I do apologize.
and folks belittle specifically blue collar labor often
This is a misconception. I hardly ever hear white collar workers belittle blue collar. Unless they’re rich which becomes more of a class thing. On the contrary I can’t count how many times I hear blue collar complaining about how useless white collar workers are.
I don’t mean white collar folks, I just mean in general it’s looked at as ‘lesser than’ by many. It’s a divisive rhetoric, in either direction, hence my apology for continuing it - no labor is useless and it’s all underpaid