re: When did society start looking down on blue collar jobs?

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When we started paying other countries’ poor people to make things for us.

Basically anything done with your hands was “less than” at that point. The pandemic shortages hopefully taught us what a mistake that was.

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At a fraction of the cost****



Ask hedge fund managers, who are worth billions, if they thought it was a mistake to out source. Ask the Walton family if they thought outsourcing a mistake for their bottom lines. Ask anyone who made money from the stock market if they thought outsourcing was a mistake.

What it did do is create a massive gap in society, rendering many Americans unable to maintain their living standards by simple professions. You had to become a hyper-specialist to make it in the new economy.