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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!!!

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 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.”

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 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

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fuck that nobody ahould be a plumber but me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can be the plumber. I'm currently positioning myself to be the town pipe layer, laying pipe in evey home.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Layin pipe, one household st a time, the way the good lord intended.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

trying to read code written by AI is going to give me an aneurysm.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 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!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Obviously, the food just comes to you through a big pipe.