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Also, software is seen as a great and growing middle class job now. No one wants to be left out. Truckers, not so much.



I really think it's this. Tech jobs are seen as the remaining 'good' jobs while automation and technology eats away at everything. So it is I imagine reasonable that the public at large wants the share of these economic opportunities to be diverse, like the population that the tech companies themselves serve.




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