Even if it was they would be wrong to sell it

The obvious difference being that the average bsky user is employed in the latter and not the former.
I'm agnostic on automation, if it works it works, I just think the productivity gains should benefit workers.

That's fair. It just seems that people on here are much more enthusiastic, even gleeful, about automating blue collar jobs and argue it's an unambiguous economic positive, but with white collar jobs, it's illogical and harmful and tech CEOs just want to intimidate the professional class or something

Do you think automating professional white-collar jobs using AI is good?

Even if your argument is more "practical" and you oppose increasing wages because it will increase prices for consumers (this also applies to sweatshop workers etc), the same thing still applies-- you are a hypocrite if you think professionals should be paid more but not e.g. factory workers.

... a group of workers the userbase doesn't like. If you make that argument, you cannot complain about professionals like corporate lawyers and software engineers being underpaid. They are also paid what they deserve.

A lot of liberals justify the low pay of manual labour by their lower productivity and oppose union action to increase their wages because "they are paid what they are deserve". This is a generic conservative anti-bargaining stance which is somehow accepted on this site when it's used against ...

I saw a post a while back calling coal miners "high status" and had to laugh.

A manifestation of this untrue class narrative is "schrodinger's manufacturing worker": overpaid, coddled by the government, and actually doing quite well despite what NYT journos say, but their jobs and lives are so bad that increasing them will immiserate and impoverish the country. Which is it?

More broadly the idea that Trumpism/the far right is mainly a movement of angry reactionary blue collar luddites (men) who resent the success of the PMC (women) and want to return to a time when they could oppress them. I don't think reflects reality

The mythologising and worship of the Professional Managerial Class (PMC) is out of hand. You are drawing conclusions about the moral character of an entire demographic based on them voting democrat by what is probably a 5 to 10 percent margin.

and Palestine/pro-Palestine activism *

The people who hate “blue hair and pronouns” form a more or less continuous block from far right to centre left