Do you think people who make fun of those with different money values are self sabotaging themselves?

[jennifer_bloom]

I’ve met guys who made $80,000 at 21 by installing simple objects into simple machines so educated engineers who make $60,000 a year doing high level processing work have no business accusing uneducated people of being delusional if they want to make more than them. I heard fork lift operators can earn more than a pharmacist or dentist cause they have big responsibility, one mistake and millions are lost and people die.

[MrOracle]

My uncle was a master welder (among several major skills, such as heavy diesel mechanic) who was making $100,000 in the 1980s building precision metal things for Lawrence Livermore Labs. Now he does unexploded ordnance disposal on military ranges and makes about $200k. His lack of a degree didn't him from doing quite well for himself and his family.

Anyone who thinks they are "better than" someone because of a degree or a white collar job is an idiot. The world would very quickly grind to a halt without the men (and a few women) working blue-collar jobs. White collar jobs could not exist without the infrastructure that blue collar workers build and maintain.

Try to imagine your entire country losing the electrical grid for a month. It's likely half of the country would not survive. It would stop water purification and pumping (no more clean water), fuel refining and pumping (no gas, no deliveries, no police patrols), and refrigeration (no food). People without their own supplies will quickly begin attacking others looking to take what they have by force. It would get ugly VERY quickly.