Re:Zucktown, USA
by notyourday on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @11:36AM
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They are definitely interchangeable. What currently is happening is that the bottom 95th percentile of people in software engineering and product are discovering that they are also completely utterly interchangeable.
I think that's pretty offensive to a lot of tradespeople. If you think plumbers, carpenters, or electricians are unskilled, try doing what they do. Unions protected both skilled and unskilled workers. Whether they continue to do so, or whether they can serve in that role for information workers, is quite an interesting question, but skilled vs. unskilled is not at the crux of it.