Interesting concept. It's great to learn new English expressions like this one. I'm definitely a blue collar, in Venezuela is really hard to get a career and the most of our college students need to find a job or even leave the country. This is, sadly, a blue collar nation.

I think, as a libertarian in essence and true believer of the greatness of free market and capitalism, that having a degree is not enough to be a professional and many professional workers doesn't even have a degree. In the freelance world that is very obvious, but companies just don't get it yet.

One of the most known personalities and business man that stand for the idea of hiring people for his habilites and not for a diploma is Bill Gates, one of the richest guys in the world and, in fact, a blue collar. We need to go forward with this idea.