I think it's important to note that in spite of lip service, societies generally no longer views one's education or even specialized skillset as the key factor that determines where in society a certain career or job description occupies. And these things are necessarily social constructs so they differ from place to place but generally the framework follows one's individual ability to affect the personal welfare of others and the amount of personal liability one takes on for outcomes experienced by others. In the US we've decided that doctors and lawyers generally have a lot of power in effectively determining quality of life and liberty and property in a fairly direct way and these positions are also individually liable for their individual malpractice. I don't think any developer job quite gets to that level of liability but where each individual workplace and title occupies in the social hierarchy also follows a similar framework. It's entirely possible that someone hustling gray hat SEO services on Fiverr has the same level of expertise and education as someone who makes 10 or 100x what they make and they may even use the same technologies in possibly similar ways none of that really matters in how we look at these things. In a service-oriented economy the old notions of white collar and blue collar leaves out a majority of the workforce anyway and since the divide is really between specific, specialized industries instead of a broad notion of "education level" it's not really a good way to describe what really ends up to be a barometer of some mixture of prestige, income, influence, and social importance, and that's really what any present day discussion white/blue collar work really is about, no?
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I think it's important to note that in spite of lip service, societies generally no longer views one's education or even specialized skillset as the key factor that determines where in society a certain career or job description occupies. And these things are necessarily social constructs so they differ from place to place but generally the framework follows one's individual ability to affect the personal welfare of others and the amount of personal liability one takes on for outcomes experienced by others. In the US we've decided that doctors and lawyers generally have a lot of power in effectively determining quality of life and liberty and property in a fairly direct way and these positions are also individually liable for their individual malpractice. I don't think any developer job quite gets to that level of liability but where each individual workplace and title occupies in the social hierarchy also follows a similar framework. It's entirely possible that someone hustling gray hat SEO services on Fiverr has the same level of expertise and education as someone who makes 10 or 100x what they make and they may even use the same technologies in possibly similar ways none of that really matters in how we look at these things. In a service-oriented economy the old notions of white collar and blue collar leaves out a majority of the workforce anyway and since the divide is really between specific, specialized industries instead of a broad notion of "education level" it's not really a good way to describe what really ends up to be a barometer of some mixture of prestige, income, influence, and social importance, and that's really what any present day discussion white/blue collar work really is about, no?