What?

, just go into the trades instead.” This view seems increasingly common, and it’s worrying. There’s a trend of glorifying blue-collar work while demeaning white-collar paths, as if pursuing higher education is somehow less valid. Young people should be encouraged to reach for higher education and intellectual growth, not steered toward careers that can wreck their bodies with manual labor.

It sounds like you’re upset that some people are saying you should go to school for something that will have available jobs…

By all means, if you want to be an unemployed coder, go into coding.