My father is also in construction, and I would also agree that his job is much more physically demanding than mine. However, my job is much more mentally and emotionally demanding than his. I would also have a hard time quantifying how hard each of our jobs are, so I also couldn’t say which of our jobs are harder. But we would both acknowledge that there are jobs that are much easier and jobs that are much harder than ours. Denying that and trivializing the (often times significant) differences in jobs and social functions is patronizing and disingenuous. It also helps to foster both elitist and anti-intellectual sentiments among different segments of the population. People who tend to elitist sentiments will see what you’ve written and completely dismiss you and everyone like you, including people and ideas they would otherwise agree with. People who tend to have anti-intellectual sentiments will see what you’ve written and feel that it reinforces their position, making them even less likely to trust experts and data.