Some have even argued that because America’s software and internet sectors have been so lucrative, talent has been diverted away from older industries.

It’s not just that software and internet has been so lucrative, it’s also that there are fringe benefits of being a white collar software worker versus a blue collar factory worker. The biggest is absolutely that the blue collar work will fucking ruin your body over time. All my blue collar friends have a plethora of health problems related to doing manual labor their whole lives. Injuries that will never really heal and leave them in chronic pain until they die. None of my white collar working friends in the software sector have any health problems similar to that which were triggered by their job. A few of them have some serious health issues, but nothing caused by the work they did.

Millennials and Gen Z are some of the most educated generations in history, and we’re surprised they’ve recognized this and made the choice to not suffer physically in their old age?