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Re:High-School Shop Students Attract Skilled-Trades Job Offers by JKCalhoun on Monday May 12, 2025 @05:34AM (#43961160)
Telling everyone to "just learn to code" is worse I think. Especially since I'm not reading about well off white collar workers telling kids to skip school and go into the trades. (Except maybe on HN?)

I realized a long time ago that there are a lot of people that absolutely will not function if they cannot do a job with their hands where they can feel like they did something at the end of each day. (In fact I might almost be one of those people.) Keeping some manufacturing as well as good (union?) trade jobs is a smart move for a country/society.

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Re:High-School Shop Students Attract Skilled-Trades Job Offers by bell-cot on Monday May 12, 2025 @08:19AM (#43962133)
> is worse I think.

Yep.

And on top of the "will not function if they cannot do a job with their hands" issue, the great majority of people are really not potential good coders.

Plus, at any scale, an "everyone codes" society very obviously fails the "where does their food come from ?" test.

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