The worker’s revenge

Whether in mechanics, cooking or construction, the golden age of physical and concrete professions is to come. For example, There are still things around us that are not summed up in zeros and some. Similarly, Truth of the Palice: Real will survive the virtual. Similarly, which means that the professions often snubbed by the great thinkers of the digital revolution are those who will get out of it best.

This revenge is widely deserved. Therefore, I do not believe I have met better daily philosophers than our neighbors and manual workers.

This is the case of Gilbert, my plumber friend. In addition, With Gilbert, there is never a problem, only solutions. Similarly, “Do you know someone who has not managed to make his water entry work?” confides Gilbert to me by trying to connect two pipes of different sizes worker’s revenge that meet in an impossible angle. Therefore,

“Well it doesn’t happen. However, We stop, we think and we always find a solution. Furthermore, ” Gilbert was an industrial plumber and did 1,000 projects in his life. Nothing stops it.

Being anxious of nature, the words of wisdom of Gilbert marked me.

In manual work, we do not paralyze in front of the problems, we show imagination and we solve them. It is not Chatgpt that will weld a centenary hose with a “three-quarter copper pipe in elbow at 45”.

His worn hands have solved problems, they have built things.

My admiration is boundless in front of these daily craftsmen, electricians, mechanics, repairers and other “bizouneux”. All jobs that the machine can never replace and which will finally live their glory time. Professions finally respected and respectable.

We actually witness a certain revenge. a return of history, an answer to our mistakes from the past to have almost eliminated bakers, craftsmen and blacksmiths.

Because we will not hide it. he persists in some classes of the population a certain contempt for traditional and manual professions. The bourgeois has often depreciated the proletarian. But karma exists and it is not esoteric.

Jobs with the “hands in it” can never be carried out by machines. it is all this new reality that had escaped us, the “great thinkers” and intellectuals of modernity.

To operate your WiFi, it took wire, electricity, antennas and infrastructure. Because behind all this virtual, there is mechanical and welds.

Also think of all these health and care jobs. The importance of nurses, attendants to beneficiaries, kinesiologists and so on. The diagnostics will worker’s revenge be very soon lavished by machines, it will take humans to administer this care.

The tendency to confide. share everything in Chatgpt will be time and the return to real encounters with a human being will prevail. Your phone – says intelligent – will not help you during an existential crisis. nor will it be wash, change our diapers or prepare our meals.

In short. when we little dreamed of becoming an architect, engineer or astronaut, we had not thought that it might be better to become a builder, entrepreneur and maker. The machine will have the plans better than us, we will always need someone to build and make them.

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