The classic Loving The Idea of manual labour without actually doing any of it
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
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"Join a trade so you can break your joints and then get denied healthcare over it, so you go back to being broke from the drug habit you got from the hard labor and injuries."
Tale as old as time. It's super unfortunate. These folk could make great engineers with their hands on experience and we throw them to the wolves.
Shit in my days there I've seen several people with engineering degrees in the line of work funny enough.
Rich white dudes who work in tech fetishizing the working class without actually living the life of destroying your body, your mental health, and the environment.
Fetishizing the military because they wanna kill brown people and fetishizing manual labour. You know how often they call third world workers lazy because they may not have shown up? They don't take into account that a lot don't have days off in those fields. Or they accumulate a fuckton of injuries over the years.
oh no they're absolutely destroying the environment
Yeah I forgot that generating your 16 tittie ai waifu uses a swimming pool's worth of water.
Mike Rowe and its consequences. Would've loved to have been the stage hand that slapped him in the face with dirt so he could do a fake working shot at the bottom of a hole.
Reactionaries were throwing around that stupid work pledge, too, when he posted it. This is a guy who does like 2 hours of actual labor each week and 38 hours of acting. Acting has its own physical effects, but Rowe likes to pretend he spent 60 hours lifting engine blocks, carrying floorboards, or packaging food on an assembly line.
I know he's completely full of shit because it's me who has actually done those jobs lmao (and 40 hours of it wipes you).
Would have been an interesting show but he's a ghoul. That safety third bullshit putting worker safety down as a priority is fucked
The world would be a better place if he stayed an opera singer
Meanwhile they imagine farming works like Minecraft
They think they're going to be in the fields plowing it with a mule, fucking morons.
Imagine the meltdown when the mule just stops cooperating because its a mule and they do that. Famously they do that.