[nunez]

> Meanwhile, my fiancée cleans houses. Real work. Work you can see. But the moment people hear that, they reduce her. At least sometimes that tells me how she feels. But she works harder than most people in glass buildings ever will. She built a life with her own hands. And still, when people hear “house cleaner,” they act like that tells them the whole story.

Couldn't be more true. Blue collar workers get derided and "other"ed all of the time despite working harder (and riskier) than most of us.

[WalterGR]

By whom? I’ve never seen it.

(Short bio: grew up on a farm in the Midwest US. Have a CS degree. (Had a job hauling rugs around while getting said degree.) Have worked for Big Tech. Etc.)

> despite working harder

Is this the deriding and “other”ing you mean?