Only half way through this and it's already worth sharing. The thing that hit me the most about working a lot of manual labor jobs, was how humiliating they were often made to be by ppl looking down on you for being a janitor or the like.
[Status, class, and the crisis of expertise
By celebrating "common sense" over expert authority, populism performs a dramatic status inversion. It gifts uneducated voters the power of knowledge and deflates those who look down on them.]
https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/status-class-and-the-crisis-of-expertise
@GuerillaOntologist I remember seeing a news magazine's listing of highest paid (hourly) people in the USA sometime in the early 80s. The top spot was a 70 year old janitor making over $100k. I also believe garbageman was one of the highest paying hourly jobs, but college was considered the path to well paying jobs.
It's harder to see that now with college requiring mortgage-level debt, and the decline in good pay and benefits. This probably led to a lack of respect for knowledge.
