• Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    My point is that I said i felt isolated by blue collar workers not considering tech workers as the same class.

    Labor isn’t a class difference.

    desk workers suffer numerous health issues due to sitting all day/lack of movement.

    Blue collar workers get significantly decreased life spans compared to white collar, because we breath in fumes and strain our bodies. That’s not the point you want to stand on for them being the same.

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      1 day ago

      maybe try to win over people instead of assuming we don’t know how tough it is out there as a blue collar worker? I didn’t say your life was a walk in the park. I said we as tech workers are still breaking our health for capitalist profits which we don’t see much of. Why do you think I chose an office job? My father was an assembly line worker making automotive starter motors. He came home and slept is all i remember from his working days. You think you should feel proud of someone going away from backbreaking work or do you think less of them because they decided to make their lives a little bit easier?

      • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        16 hours ago

        I don’t have a problem with your job being easier. My issue is you white collar workers sitting in your air conditioned rooms and diminishing the difference in body damage and quality of life between white collar and blue collar.

        You’re not breaking your health. You can just exercise outside of work to stop most of the issues. We don’t get that luxury, which is why it stings when you try to say the damage is equivalent.