This trope, that people look down on the trades, is a huge part of the persecution complex of white men. It's not real.

— Jim Dunne (@jamesmdunne) January 4, 2021

LOL, where’d they find this dipshit? Of course many people look down on the trades.

Try this: see how an upper middle class or striving-to-be upper middle class family reacts when their son or daughter tells the parental units that their ambition is to be an HVAC tech or a plumber rather than a lawyer or an HR specialist, etc. I’ll tell you, the reaction will not be pretty.

A friend of mine in the UK was dating what there is called a “joiner” but here would be called a carpenter. Her parents were enraged that she was dating someone “below her station.” Her friends were appalled. Same would be true in the US, just with somewhat different class connotations.

He turned out to be a gobshite, but not because he was a joiner.