[busterarm]

It's not elitist. Some skills are effectively commoditized. They don't require specialized, rare knowledge, years of training and constant personal investment.

If you pick a job that literally anyone else can learn to do in a few days, then the cap on your salary and lack of bargaining power is on you.

[foobarian]

I mean, it is elitist. Is that inaccurate? What I don't get is why that is supposed to be bad. It's just a fact.

[function_seven]

"Elitist" is almost always used as a pejorative. Just looking up the definition of it points to social power, wealth, class hierarchies, etc. It is rarely used to just mean "smart, capable, skilled" in a neutral sense.

The comment above was clearly using it as a pejorative.