54321 said:
if you say being a 'farrier' and living in the 'countryside' is worth 'fighting for' = your ELITE (the one you don't belong in) has clearly convinced you that such occupations are acceptable --> then sheep comes to my mind and not shepherd --> one example of why certain parts of the world are slowly losing their ground.
One can be mislead to believe otherwise if they have not seen or experienced it.
i sure would like to live in such an Utopian society but we live in capitalism = always going to be those who have and those who don't --> hierarchy and social ladder are unavoidable, they have to be there. mankind chose this way. also from what you say then there would not be any need for one to make an effort, work hard and try to achieve their dreams and goals in life as opposed to some people who would be content on living in the countryside doing whatever they seem acceptable.
You clearly are not from a Western country. That was my point- in a country like India, a skilled tradesperson is looked down upon whereas in the West, they are looked to with great respect. Do you even know what a farrier is (without Googling it), do you even practice equestrian? It's just one example of a rural trade that's highly skilled and very respected in the West. Find me a British or Canadian farrier who is poor/looked down upon and I'll eat my shoe. They are well paid, highly skilled and hugely respected. It seems you don't even understand what a highly skilled trade is- it is not unskilled work that anyone can do- you have to train for several years and gain PhD-level knowledge to be at the top of your profession e.g. the best swordsmiths in the US/Canada have PhDs in metallurgy.
You really haven't got a clue have you? Your world view seems to be limited to professional careers and reeks of folk from India who know nothing else (I know a huge number of doctors from Asian families in the UK who were forced into it by their backward family- once qualified they quit and became poets/actors/skilled craftspersons). Also most professionals from the west opt for professional careers for financial reasons alone and most have alternative real interests that they DREAM they could have had a chance to have a career in, but never could afford it. So a professional career really is for the poor middle class aspirational person who doesn't have a better choice in life. Talk about sheep. The ironic thing with people like you is- you are willing to do unskilled survival work (taxi, warehouse, supermarket etc), which is genuinely pathetic work, but you see a skilled rural trade as a bad job? I would never take up such unethical, unskilled work and often unhealthy work that is basically exploitation to feed consumerism and climate change.
Many highly skilled professionals FROM the West (born and raised for several generations) regret entering the ratrace and would 'fight for' an opportunity to retrain in a rural trade which offers a much better quality of life, lower stress and a greater sense of achievement in one's life. Indeed in the West, many of these software/banking etc professionals are amateur craftpersons- they join hobby clubs and at night dream of living in the country. Some achieve these dreams. London bankers have amongst the highest rates of suicide in the UK and they have to retire by age 40- some make it rich, retire and take up a skilled trade to satisfy their real DREAMS- most end up in the rat race and end up wasting their lives in poor health and lost dreams and ambitions. Very few end up as CEOs etc and they are the people who push the image of professional work being great- they want the SHEEP like you to take up their zero hour contract, stressful and unhealthy jobs. You're the sheep pal.
I'm from the UK, at the top of my engineering profession (money, "status" etc) and like nearly every single one of my Western peers, I have alternative long-term dreams. If I get an opportunity to retrain in a skilled rural trade in Canada I will certainly fight for it, but I won't be working as exploited slave labour (so called survival jobs). And that was the point that I had made originally- that perception matters; Canadian employers think that immigrants are only good enough for survival jobs, but if immigrants refused survival jobs and held out for highly skilled work, this would create a positive impression of immigrants as highly skilled and worth employing. If you fail in your profession, retrain and find another one, but don't end up being a slave labourer in a supermarket- you give all immigrants a bad image as being worthless. It doesn't matter if you need to pay the bills; there is lots of respectable and skilled work that can be done which doesn't fall into 'survival' category.
If you want to integrate in the West, you'd better leave your backward mindset behind.
