Recently, morons on the political right have been spreading a lame-ass meme, "Learn to Code". Centrists (the best of humanity 😎) and leftists helpfully suggested that people in careers that should become obsolete (e.g. petroleum engineering) learn to code—shorthand for get with the times. Right-wingers are mocking journalists who have lost their jobs and other productive members of society using this phrase.
Here is why these trolls are stupid. Miners losing their jobs and journalists losing their jobs are two different cases. Journalists do important knowledge work. Miners will soon become replaced by robots. Journalists can't be replaced by robots because they do knowledge work that requires human empathy. Mining doesn't require empathy, but writing stories that inform people does.
Who do we want more of in society, empathetic human beings or NPC robots? I think reasonable people will agree on an answer to this question.
Stay woke,
Virtuous Centrists
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