Rofel_Wodring t1_ja9lnex wrote on February 27, 2023 at 9:15 PM

Reply to comment by Cetun in The Desert of the Virtual. The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems by Maxwellsdemon17

Also, the trades have a lot of grabass associated with them. After getting out, I was not pleased to learn that, for better or for worse, blue collar working culture is interchangeable with enlisted military working culture. And not the fun Stripes/Down Periscope part, I mean the G.I. Jane/Jarhead parts.

Of course, there's also the issue of finding the right trade. If you did pneumatic controls or drywall, well, sucks to be you! Should've picked lighting systems, idiot. Oh, wait, Lutron owns everything and underpays its lighting techs. Well, you should've invented a time machine, idiot.

But yeah, trades solve everything. If everyone did a trade, the wage stagnation that happened with liberal arts and STEM totally won't happen with blue collar work. You see, by picking up a wrench or a multimeter, you put up an anti-job competition field that can permanently deflect any number of hungry applicants, no matter how much you get lowballed.

Neil_Live-strong t1_jacl1fq wrote on February 28, 2023 at 1:49 PM

Wasn’t Down Periscope the best? They didn’t offer that major in college so I couldn’t be a submarine captain on an old WW2 diesel sub that’s manned by a rag tag motley crew of misfits and a sexy first mate who’s clothes are too small for her. Because I could have also minored in hosting Village People concerts. Even though that didn’t work out, at least I wasn’t stuck with a communications degree.