reminds me of when he was talking in front of coal miners recently and said something like "look at these guys, all they do is mine coal, they love it, if we stop mining coal what will they do with themselves"

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

he wasn't that wrong. a bunch of those fuckers reject any offer of retraining and definitely didn't want to learn to code. fucking americans make their jobs their identity and if you say coal is bad that makes them bad.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 5 points 11 hours ago

reject any offer of retraining and definitely didn't want to learn to code..

History kinda proved them right though.

Retraining to what jobs? Where?

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

reject any offer of retraining and definitely didn’t want to learn to code.

Because the idea of having 30-40 year old blue-collar men from Appalachia being asked to suddenly learn how to deeply and intimately use a computer while learning an entirely new language form is about the same as expecting them to learn Chinese and be foreign exchange traders. Retraining would make sense in other similar fields. Other forms of mining/extraction or another blue-collar trade.

On top of that, what would be the point in training them in code? So they can have their skill-set entirely useless in 2-3 years when AI starts doing the jobs for them?

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 1 points 5 hours ago

this was like 10+ years ago, they could've even learned react and made good money and half of 'em retired before the post-covid bubble burst.

there were better options than teaching boomers to use computers they could've tried but the job-as-identity freaks wouldn't go for it regardless