Some 16 year old told me he had worked a full week nonstop, so he was told he had to take the next five days off. I told him that was good.
I told him that most people will not make it in today’s economy when $150,000 is considered middle class. He replied that $150,000 is a lot of money. I said sure, but the average American salary is around $65,000.
Then I asked him what kind of work he did, and he said he did some low level blue collar welding. I told him blue collar work is terrible. He responded that welders can make over $100,000 a year.
I told him that blue collar work is for low-autism score, uneducated people and that the adults in those jobs are losers and people who messed up their lives. I also said blue collar work is fun when you’re a kid, but the adults doing it are there because they’re losers.
It turned out that three blue collar workers had been listening to our conversation and told the kid not to listen to me because I didn’t know what I was talking about.
I then told the kid that when he grows up, he will realize people look down on blue collar workers for a reason and that blue collar adults are not the kind of people he should want to know.
The blue collar workers called me ignorant, yet, from my perspective, they seemed to have chips on their shoulders and came across as unintelligent.
I wanted to talk numbers because no way most blue collar makes over $100k. Can someone fill me in?
>>793612Beats unskilled labour and he can always go back to uni
>>793612<the house uygha up here preaching at the field uygha like he's any less oppressed>I wanted to talk numbers because no way most blue collar makes over $100kthey're not, at least not without a fuckton of overtime, and not without being union. the vast majority, maybe less than 10% I would wager, are earning that amount. it's just dangled over the head of the apprentice so as to get them invested in the thought of persisting in the trade.
still, blue collar work shouldn't be denigrated in this fashion. good people work in the trades, and not all of them are losers and idiots like you've said. we need blue collar workers and they deserve to be treated with respect so unionization and the advocating for improved working conditions and better pay and benefits is necessary.
Youre an ignoramus
Blue collar jobs are not for losers nor idiots
That’s a psyop promoted by schools to make money on kids enrolling in college
Irony is, there’s more college graduates being stuck in dead end jobs that cannot break the five figure salary mark.
And let’s not forget the student loans
Lastly, trades are essential because they deal with amenities that non-tradesmen take for granted.
At least with trades you can expect steady employment.
Idk what’s up with Leftypol with their contempt for trades and advocating for NEETing
This is not how real leftists operate
For you to say blue collar work is for post-pubescent losers? At least they don’t have to deal with making resumes to a dozen hundred companies
>>793618Uni is expensive and ends up with unemployable degrees
People be trying to sell college despite companies underpaying college graduates and even cutting back on college educated workers
>>793631>Idk what’s up with Leftypol with their contempt for trades and advocating for NEETingI know you say this all the time and you'll disagree but that's not my impression at all. It's usually the opposite. Whenever someone makes a thread like most anons will challenge their stance. Just take this thread for example most of the respondents have disagreed to a degree. You're just pissy because of you're own issues mainly.
imagine karma farming on an anonymous imageboard
this nga is so retarded
>>793635Not exactly.
There’s little to no pushback against NEETing on here
There’s pushback against anti-schooling but never against anti work or rather anti-trades
>>793638Remember the original version of “Let’s Get It Started” by The Black Eyed Peas?
>>793640Still think it's about your own personal issues but whatever.
>>793647There’s more threads whining about sexlessness than my opinions. If anything that’s more “making it about my opinion” than me
The bourgies want us in trade school to make us work for them endlessly, perpetuating the oppressive cycle of the chaining of the proles
>>793662And university can make you escape that? Only way is to drop out of society or be fortunate enough to be self employed.
>>793662It’s the opposite
Bourgeois are pushing college and university.
Trades are looked down upon as for losers.
Trades are more essential for society than you think.
People think themselves too good to work with their hands. Everyone wants the cushy desk job where they can talk with fellow cosmopolitan intellectuals.
That’s the image that bourgeois sells about college education
And no wonder why so many people end up with student loan debt and get jobs that are subpar to their degree