8 or the 10 jobs listed in the article you linked are described as needing a BA/BS or better. Those are generally equivalent to a CS programmer.
I am aware of that, just using it as an easy barometer.
Heavy industry is such things as shipyards, heavy equipment, aircraft, steel production. One might include Fabs in it as well.
I wasn't the one brining politics into it. There is no doubt there is a significant left lean to high tech people in general. I have plenty of experience working with people in tech jobs. I spent several years in software development, have a degree in IT and am finishing up my masters in data analytics. I am not shitting on the new jobs, I am lamenting the ones we have lost over the past decades.
The percentage of the upper class has increase, the percentage of lower class has increased about as much, the middle class is smaller. Any shift in labor demands that increases the lower class is not really good. Unless you enjoy the idea of only having a lower and upper class with even more significant wealth inequity we already have.
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It is not a matter of if there should be regulation, but of the correct amount.