> These people loved telling factory workers and especially coal miners to "learn to code".
The focus "coal miners" is comical. There are some 69,460 coal mining jobs in the US[1], 15,900 of them "blue-collar". That's less than the number of people who work at Google[2]. I get that this is usually shorthand for blue-collar workers. But at the same time very real energy policy decisions are being made ostensibly to keep this small group of people in their jobs. Investing in better access to retraining is probably a better move.
The focus "coal miners" is comical. There are some 69,460 coal mining jobs in the US[1], 15,900 of them "blue-collar". That's less than the number of people who work at Google[2]. I get that this is usually shorthand for blue-collar workers. But at the same time very real energy policy decisions are being made ostensibly to keep this small group of people in their jobs. Investing in better access to retraining is probably a better move.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/20/t...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-ti...