Plumbers and Electricians Smugly Watch AI Replace College-Educated Workers

Plumbers and electricians watching AI replacing everyone who went to college:

The meme consists of two parts: a block of text at the top reading 'Plumbers and electricians watching AI replacing everyone who went to college:', followed by a close-up photograph of a middle-aged man with dark and gray facial hair, grinning widely in a smug, amused, and self-satisfied manner. The core joke highlights that manual skilled trade jobs such as plumbing and electrical work are far less susceptible to being automated or replaced by artificial intelligence than many white-collar roles that require a college education, implying tradespeople feel relief and amusement at being comparatively safe from AI-driven job loss while college graduates face growing displacement risk.

This meme was sourced from the RSS feed of the X.com (formerly Twitter) account @WholesomeMeme. It is a remix of a popular existing reaction image of a grinning, smug-looking man, with custom text overlaid on top to create the joke about AI job displacement and the relative job security of skilled trade workers compared to college-educated white-collar workers.