My comment was in response to you apparently not understanding the distinction being drawn by the OP between software development as a relatively high status profession and the relatively low status auto mechanic career. The OP was alluding to the waning status of being a software dev since the 2000-2010 heyday. Injecting your opinion regarding my take on the status of the auto mechanic profession was entirely unwarranted.
I understand the comment - my point was that I don't consider being an auto mechanic to be a low status, or shameful profession to begin with - hence my original reply to begin with. I believe it is you who did not understand the point of my original comment. Oh well.
Oh, so you were in fact feigning ignorance as some kind of bad Socratic method? I figured as much, but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. It's also a mistake to assume a casual example to make an entirely unrelated point is representative of someones views.
