This is primarily because manufacturing has been moved, and there are no manufacturing apprenticeships. A low-wage manufacturing job can lead to high-wage auto

This is primarily because manufacturing has been moved, and there are no manufacturing apprenticeships. A low-wage manufacturing job can lead to high-wage automation and tooling maintenance and eventually design positions, or shop steward, training or mentoring. And “learn to code” should be a basic school curriculum topic! It is well, frankly, disgusting that such a universally powerful, useful and accessible skill has been withheld from the vast majority of students, and now made almost into an “epithet” meaning disrespect toward lower-skilled people. I don’t know any job, no matter how menial, that couldn’t be improved by some automation of it’s most repetitive book-keeping tasks.