Blue collar people punch down on services all the time. Usually it's because they "make less money," so they must be an inferior breed. "Not everyone can do what we do!" Bruh, you're like on your 30th smoke break this
hour, you would collapse in retail or burger flipping.
This is really no mystery. There has been a toxic waft against "unskilled labor" from right wing media for a long time, just as against "educated elites" (the ExPeRtS). Blue collars watch a lot of Fox and (listened) to a lot of Rush.
Everyone here's seen Office Space, yeah? That movie vibed with a lot of blue collar. "Get out of your BS white collar job and go into construction, the objectively best non-BS job!" It's really weird to me too that the film's been talked to me about in that light. It's as white collar as it is blue collar. People even in grunt-level construction and contracting have to deal with a lot of their own BS, multiple bosses, sometimes clunky printers. "Did you take the before and after pictures, text them over!" At the upper levels of the biz, on the phone all the time. Drama between cities and properties, inspectors asking for the mathematically impossible. "Can you find and resend me an email you sent at sometime between 2011 and 2014?"
For people in it on their own, crippling taxations and requirements to meet administrative overhead. Grow or die.
I guess it's nice that they got a movie that made them feel happy about their jobs though.
there is absolutely zero convincing reason why the world's richest countries cannot pay all their workers equitably and still have plenty left to spare.
