It’s karma. The creatives weren’t terribly concerned when the factory guys lost their jobs. “Lern to code!” Now it’s our turn to “Learn to OnlyFans” or “Learn to Homeless”
> The creatives [...] “Lern to code!”
No, the underlying format of "$LABOR_ISSUE can be solved by $CHANGE_JOB" comes from a place of politics, where a politician is trying to suggest they have a plan to somehow tackle a painful problem among their constituents, and that therefore they should be (re-)elected.
Then the politicians piled onto "coal-miners can learn to code" etc. because it was uniquely attractive, since:
1. No big capital expenditures, so they don't need to promise/explain how a new factory will get built.
2. The potential for remote work means constituents wouldn't need to sell their homes or move.
3. Participants wouldn't require multiple years of expensive formal schooling.
4. It had some "more money than you make now" appeal.
Stating it in patronizing fact-checker tone does not make it true. The tech nerds started it (they love cheap labor pools). Then the politicians joined their masters’ bandwagon. It was a PR blitz. Who has the money for those? Dorseys, Grahams, & Zuckerbergs, or petty-millionaire mayors & congressmen? Politicians are just the house slaves—servants of money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learn_to_Code#Codecademy_and_C...
"Tech nerds" like Dorsey and Zuckerberg have almost nothing in common (on a day-to-day basis, with how they live their lives, their material incentives, etc.) with "tech nerds" like "Intel Employee #783,529". Those are not a single class of people, and it was predominantly the first group that pushed this sort of rhetoric, not the latter.
24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?You whine about a "patronizing fact-checker tone", yet when someone points out a real difference between groups, you flee and sling Bible verses?
Forget these new taxes on Americans who buy Canadian hardwood, we can just supply logs from your eyes.
It's common sense. That is why it has endured. You people are like mob hitmen standing in moral judgment of your Godfathers. Without your muscle, your Godfather is just an old guy with pasta and a cigar. The "difference" is something you hallucinate so you can feel good about yourselves.
how much more shall they call them of his household?"learn to code" was thrown around by programmers, not creatives. Everyone else (including writers and artists) has long hated that phrase, and condemded it as stupid and shortsighted.
“learn to code” was from the media. whether they deserve to be classified as “creatives” i will leave to the philosophers.