They also completely fuck up your body and are entirely off the table for anyone with disabilities. And I guess anyone who doesn’t want to be disabled at 45. The rate of drug use in the trades due to pain is HUGE.
Trades, like college, are not for everyone, and should not be pushed to everyone as a solution or they won’t be lucrative anymore. Like lawyers in the 90s and IT today, by the time people, en masse, start saying everyone should do it, because it pays super well, enough people are in training, or planning to be, that the next wave to start is likely to be the last to make good money, and the wave after will bring everyone else down as well (arguably good at the moment because getting work done is ridiculously expensive, but not great long term for people in those jobs). I know several young people who are going into either trades or nursing. And that’s great, if that’s what they want to do.
But the thing is, people used to be able to support themselves without college and without trades. Every job used to pay a livable wage, thats literally what minimum wage in the US is supposed to be, the minimum required to live a decent life. Hell, if you go back far enough, like just to the 60s or so, people could work for the summer and spend the rest of the year traveling or going to college, and be totally fine. Now only a small portion of jobs pay anything resembling survivable wages, to say nothing of livable ones.
Exactly. Working a trade isn’t this magical cheat code where you’re paid well to drink coffee and fuck the dog. It’s hard work, and although I hate to say it, those old timers are right about one thing: you can’t (and won’t if you’re doing it right) have soft hands.
The trades get shat upon by those that insist that college is the only answer after high school. Everyone must have a BS, if they want access to jobs that can materially improve their conditions in life.
Talk to kids 30 years ago and they wanted to be rock stars that party and get girls/guys all the time.
Know why people don’t want to work? Because wages are laughable unless you are white collar or highly skilled. Those that actually make the things that are providing the record breaking profits are paid the least, and work under constant fear of messing up. Thanks to right to work, union engagement is terrible. Thanks also to at-will employment, for the constant specter of $360/week of unemployment. Does that even cover rent, which has never been higher?
Who wants to work in an environment that they have no protection, stagnant wages, and live in constant fear of being fired due to a mistake?
When health and wellness care are single payer and occupational safety laws are robust and heavily fined with meaningful imprisonment for infractions, and jobs pay a living wage, and full employment is achieved without forcing elderly and disabled to do without necessities and full time employment is 30 hours so people can rest, recreate, and have time to attend to their families and personal needs and business, then this type of shitlib comment may have some sort of merit. Until then, miss me with it
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Labor should work their wage. Low wages = low effort
When I find myself confronted with yoots and I can ask what they are doing with their future plans they all say “trades and irl skills”.
None of them have said software or crypto. Nor influencers. But maybe different circles et cetera.
yeah, those pesky iPhones are definitely the problem with capitalist work culture.
They also completely fuck up your body and are entirely off the table for anyone with disabilities. And I guess anyone who doesn’t want to be disabled at 45. The rate of drug use in the trades due to pain is HUGE.
Trades, like college, are not for everyone, and should not be pushed to everyone as a solution or they won’t be lucrative anymore. Like lawyers in the 90s and IT today, by the time people, en masse, start saying everyone should do it, because it pays super well, enough people are in training, or planning to be, that the next wave to start is likely to be the last to make good money, and the wave after will bring everyone else down as well (arguably good at the moment because getting work done is ridiculously expensive, but not great long term for people in those jobs). I know several young people who are going into either trades or nursing. And that’s great, if that’s what they want to do.
But the thing is, people used to be able to support themselves without college and without trades. Every job used to pay a livable wage, thats literally what minimum wage in the US is supposed to be, the minimum required to live a decent life. Hell, if you go back far enough, like just to the 60s or so, people could work for the summer and spend the rest of the year traveling or going to college, and be totally fine. Now only a small portion of jobs pay anything resembling survivable wages, to say nothing of livable ones.
Exactly. Working a trade isn’t this magical cheat code where you’re paid well to drink coffee and fuck the dog. It’s hard work, and although I hate to say it, those old timers are right about one thing: you can’t (and won’t if you’re doing it right) have soft hands.
The trades get shat upon by those that insist that college is the only answer after high school. Everyone must have a BS, if they want access to jobs that can materially improve their conditions in life.
Talk to kids 30 years ago and they wanted to be rock stars that party and get girls/guys all the time.
Know why people don’t want to work? Because wages are laughable unless you are white collar or highly skilled. Those that actually make the things that are providing the record breaking profits are paid the least, and work under constant fear of messing up. Thanks to right to work, union engagement is terrible. Thanks also to at-will employment, for the constant specter of $360/week of unemployment. Does that even cover rent, which has never been higher?
Who wants to work in an environment that they have no protection, stagnant wages, and live in constant fear of being fired due to a mistake?
When health and wellness care are single payer and occupational safety laws are robust and heavily fined with meaningful imprisonment for infractions, and jobs pay a living wage, and full employment is achieved without forcing elderly and disabled to do without necessities and full time employment is 30 hours so people can rest, recreate, and have time to attend to their families and personal needs and business, then this type of shitlib comment may have some sort of merit. Until then, miss me with it