A few days back I came across a speech from one of the local Lions Club district governor, officiating the launch of some sort of education charity fund.
Though his speech was generally inspiring, emphasizing the need to offer financial help to the children who can’t afford education, one point that I found very disturbing – ‘if we don’t help them, they’ll end up joining the (blue collar/manual labor) work force’.
Why are we looking down onto the people who perform manual labor for a living? It’s true if they’re given a chance to pursue higher education, they might not end up on the same route.
But still, there’s no reason for us to discriminate non-K-workers. Those are the people who play a big role in our economy. Without them, there’s no food, no boots, no clothing, no houses, no buildings – there’s virtually nothing left – simply because nobody wants to do the dirty work.
They are the people who do the work we don’t want to – and they deserve respect. They are the people who at least in some way contribute to the society.
They’re better than those ‘highly educated’ brats who sleep during the day and party during the night – contributing nothing to the society, a complete leech of natural resources.
(No, contributing to the economy due to their expenditure doesn’t count – where does all the money come from?)
Yes, society will indeed move to a direction where the demand of manual labor will be reduced, replaced with machines that do the repetitive work – saving precious human resource that can be reallocated to perform more breakthroughs.
Then again, the concept of social class discrimination should be vanished.
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