Biden to coal miners "Learn to code."

[Turbineguy]

46. Maybe I'm missing the point.

There's a lot of things you can do when your job goes away. Coding is one of them. It's just that in the U.S. the usual response to this problem is, "gee, tough luck, well, pull yourself up by your bootstraps!"

Part of living in a proper civilized society is that we should invest in the members of that society. There are many jobs out there that are really beneath the dignity of a human being.

I remember my first time in Singapore. They still had rickshaws pulled by men. You rode in the contraption being pulled by this leathery old guy in a loin cloth who barely scraped a living. Eventually they were replaced by air-conditioned taxis and mass transit.

One of the promises of technology is that it frees us from doing many degrading tasks. But we have to transition to it and not say, "Here's a fucking cardboard sign. Stand by the freeway exit and hope for the best!".