Not totally. At least here we're starting to pay labor workers well. A skilled electrician or carpenter earns more than average desk jockey.
I imagine the same thing is happening elsewhere like it is in America. Since the computer technology industry exploded up faster than just about any industry before it, lots of people in my generation grew up with personal computers when our parents had hardly even interacted with any that didn't take up an entire room. "Wow, you're so good with technology, you should do that for a living," they all say. So now higher education facilities are vomiting out massive numbers of tech graduates looking for jobs while a pretty large portion of the workers in "dirty" labor-intensive jobs (plumbers, carpenters, skilled mechanics, millwrights, even electricians) are reaching retirement age with nobody to replace them. Mike Rowe's lecture on the same sort of subject is pretty entertaining to listen to (though you might not wanna be eating when you watch it), as is his side of how weird the convention was.
