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I love how liberal press screams "blue-collar workers can't get jobs", but if you try to hire plumber or electrician for a day job you will be lucky to schedule
by vl 7y ago
I love how liberal press screams "blue-collar workers can't get jobs", but if you try to hire plumber or electrician for a day job you will be lucky to schedule someone in the next few weeks and then will pay $1000 for a 6-hour visit.
- pas 7y agoThat doesn't mean much. The usual problem is that there are big swathes of the population living in regions without a healthy/diverse/growing economy. (Eg areas that are or once were monocultures of one particular sector, and/or are/were based on natural resource extraction. So basically fossil jobs and auto making are the prime examples.) The needed retraining, relocation, and/or regional revitalization is completely non-existent in the Trump era, and it wasn't really effective/serious during the Obama administration either. So, nothing to do with how much a plumber makes in a big city.