Are most programmers even capable of this sort of physical work?
Also, what happens if you get injured on the job?
Also, what happens if you get injured on the job?
Muscles grow faster than hacking skills. And if you're used to hacking skills, you probably find a way to do it better and safer.
Also, what happens if you get injured on the job?
What happens if you subject your body to sitting 100 hours a week in front of a computer for decades?
We haven't sat at desks long enough to affect us as species. You've got everything you need to be a hunter-gatherer or a farmer apart from the skills.
And I don't recall any hunter-gather tribe that had those.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-sou...
One thing to note: Crawford is a motorcycle repairman, but he's still a knowledge worker to some extent. And, of course, the book length treatment of the subject was subsidized by a university.
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