Were Software Engineers blue-collar workers all along?

Overview

Were we blue-collar workers all along? There’s a common idea among economists that you can broadly split employees into two categories. “White-collar” workers are typically people who work in offices doing service-based, knowledge-based, managerial, or administrative work; “blue-collar” workers generally do manual labour or perform skilled trades. Since at least the start of my career, software en...

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