>>2111516>i think the "programmers aren't real proletarians" cope is just wage envy tbhI think it's the false dichotomy between "blue collar" and "white collar"
For some reason people think being deprived of sunlight, being hunched over a desk all day and suffering back pain, carpal tunnel, and pilonidal cysts on your tailbone, forced to dress like a monkey, forced to attend endless meetings and pep talks that interrupt your work and make you stay late, forced to adhere to increasingly byzantine and self-contradictory company policies, are all "cushy." Obviously to some extent manual labor will always be more dangerous, so there is a sense of valor, while "white collar" workers are seen as class traitors, labor aristocrats, or even petty bourgeois.
Then there's the whole insufferable gatekeeping discourse around whether the proletariat
as a class makes subsistence wages, or whether
each individual proletarian must make subsistence in order to be considered proletariat. I won't elaborate on this because it breaks ord 4 but you know what I'm talking about.