Blue-collar take: AI can do CAD and emails, but not unclog toilets
JoeJustice · x · 2026-09-27
- A worker quips that CAD, CAM, programming, management, and emails can now all be done by AI, yet he still has to take out the trash, press in worn bearings, and unclog toilets.
- Responding to blue-collar pessimism, he argues physical laborers hold rising relative value until humanoid robots are everywhere, and can chuckle at higher-paid "laptop kids" now facing an existential crisis.
- The reversal lasts only until humanoid robotics become common and affordable, he concludes.
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