The American story, reinforced regularly with research and articles like this one, has no category for professional or vocational training. The story is simply

The American story, reinforced regularly with research and articles like this one, has no category for professional or vocational training. The story is simply "how much university education do you have". If you go and train to be an electrician, you're the same as a high-school graduate. So yeah, I agree, this is a big cultural problem the US faces. It seems like skilled trades are kind of ignored in tech circles, largely because we rarely use them. (Calling the HVAC repairmen is the landlord's job.)