I'd feel bad for them if they didn't do it to other people first.
I'd feel bad for them if they didn't do it to other people first.
I don't think your take is accurate. I'd be happy to talk it out.
e.g.
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/05/06/47...
https://abcnews.go.com/US/coal-miners-taught-html-coding-car...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annefield/2017/01/30/turning-co...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/21/tech-industr...
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/programming-is-the-new-blue-co...
You could probably go back and forth on whether the idea condescends to blue-collar workers. But the fact is, there wouldn't be these stories if the trend didn't exist and there wasn't a legitimate effort to make it happen before a reporter gave someone a call.
In what universe is journalism a blue-collar job?