content: Why? Blue collar people have always used tools and technology.  A backhoe operator is blue collar.  He is able to make a lot more money than a person trying to dig with their bare hands because of technology. Technology delivers the most productivity to society when it liberates us from tasks that "even a mindless automaton can do".  Driving is one of those things. There are plenty of blue collar jobs that require intelligence, skill or creativity; I don't feel much sympathy for a person looking for "work" that doesn't involve any of those traits. Of course, the reason I don't hire someone to fan me with palm fronds is that, due to minimum wage laws, it's cheaper to buy technology that fans me more efficiently.