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  • You are conflating the result of society filtering people with less education into blue collar work with the potential for the work to involve bigotry.

    Saying people should avoid the trades because of the current culture reinforces the current culture by filtering it to the same uneducated pool of candidates. In a first world country higher education should be free so even those that go into trades have the opportunity to further their education without it being tied to their career goals.




  • It isn’t anti intellectualism, it is a overcorrection for the decades of insisting that going to college (and taking on massive debt in the US at least) is the right career path although it isn’t worth it anymore. It isn’t saying that knowledge and learning are bad, but they aren’t as economically advantageous as they were a couple decades ago.

    The trades are good for a fairly quick return, but you are correct that they and to take a physical toll and the pay is generally exaggerated.

    Offices are full of misogyny, homophobiaz and other forms of bigotry too.

    A better approach would be to promote both on their own positives and negatives, but humans tend to swing wildly from one extreme to another.













  • That is why the examples you gave have additional words to clarify which type of park they are.

    A public park is generally a neighborhood part with open areas to do things in.

    A national park is generally much larger, has wild animals and nature things to check out.

    A water park is based on water activities.

    Park is just a descriptor for the fact that the thing is a large area of land for a specific purpose. It doesn’t really have meaning without the additional words, even if it is often used by itself as shorthand for public and national parks.


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    I worked as a cashier. I’m not here to do math that’s why I’m using the register

    You are literally here to do math and the register is just keeping track of it and helping you out to make sure the math you are doing checks out.

    I didn’t ask for more to make the change even either as a cashier, but I did understand when they gave extra to get even change because doing math was my job.