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my biggest concern with people in tech who spend all day shouting on the internet is that many of them spend very little time talking to the people actually critical to society:

doctors, firefighters, police officers, construction workers, mechanics, farmers, chefs, baristas, mailmen, janitors, retail workers, etc.

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Almost all of those are poor person jobs. Why would a poor person have anything useful to say. Be so for real

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this implies that you judge a person's usefulness or interestingness on their income?

This is the metric we have settled on as the way we judge value to society in our amoral, degenerate and secular society. Tech people can talk to all the mailmen they want and it won’t matter because that is the primary operating principle

I will mention that yes, you’re right, AND that view is most prevalent in the USA and less prevalent in old-world societies.

Of course since the US has been the hegemon for awhile, that seems to be the zeitgeist.