Stop being anti intellectual!

In my opinion this is really the wrong takeaway.

The job he is doing is not complex. We should really be asking why we designed a system in which this situation could reasonably play out, and try our best to learn from our mistakes.

Actually you need a ridiculous level of skill to operate a digger like that in those circumstances.

this meme should be more about who caused the blockage

I'm sure he has a great deal of experience, but experience and a "ridiculous level of skill" are very different things.

You're contradicting your image at this point, though, because the entire point was to demonstrate the value of "unskilled" labor.

In this context, "unskilled" was clearly referring to a job which requires low amounts of formal education.

Correct.


That guy is one slip up from death at any moment doing that job, i have lost a friend to a digger accident and another to a crane malfunction.

Are sports players unskilled?



That sounds a little dramatic. What is the fatality rate for his occupation?

His occupation is construction, it ranks at first place currently for preventable deaths.

From a labor standpoint, yes. Are they elite? Absolutely.