> Apologies if this was long and off-topic, but I hope it's left some kind of thought somewhere. Yeah, tl;dr - confirmation bias and sample of n=1 There are d

> Apologies if this was long and off-topic, but I hope it's left some kind of thought somewhere. Yeah, tl;dr - confirmation bias and sample of n=1 There are data points available for median wages of bricklayers and they are nowhere near the figures you described.