I know the leftist in me is supposed to have sympathy for these people and get them to unionize. But only after I stop laughing and enjoying this moment. For years these fucks told the rest of us to “learn to code” and pretended like studying anything else at uni was a fucking waste of time.

GUESS WHAT FUCKERS. SO WAS CODING. Looks like we’ll be baristas together, only I’ll have three years of experience!!!

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

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    everyone should be a plumber so that anyone can fix plumbing on their own instead of paying others to do it. how will a person get food if everyone's a plumber? shrug-outta-hecks

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      8 months ago

      You have to understand, these arguments aren’t about solving macroeconomic issues. They’re meant to chastise people complaining about the macroeconomic issues, hey you individually could potentially do this one thing that would given you a comfortable life, ergo the macroeconomic issues aren’t real. It’s a modern day version of “let them eat cake.”

    • Yllych [any]
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      8 months ago

      Retire early due to being a small business tyrant and stealing the fruit of your employees labour? nyet

      Retire early because of a large scale nationalised democratically run construction industry that prioritises early retirement for physically intensive work? soviet-chad

    • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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      8 months ago

      The thing I’m noticing about trades is that the most successful businesses are the ones with multiple licenses under the same brand, so they’ll be an electrician, plumber, hvac whatever else all at the same time. It’s becoming more difficult to learn a single trade and then open your own business and make it big. Way easier for a company to go on say an electrical call and then ask the homeowner if they would like their AC checked while they’re there for example.

    • underisk@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      its gonna be really funny when generative AI fucks up a bunch of code and these people have to try and hire someone who actually has a clue but all of them have moved on to other industries.

    • davel [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Everyone should be petit bourgeois is the new let them eat cake.

      • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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        8 months ago

        Unironically I feel like I've been seeing more and more of the Right out loud say "we should return to feudal times where everyone was either a craftsman or worked a tract of land!"