> If the last decade is any indication, skilled labor - especially those not afraid to own their own business, are set to make a killing. It's almost always be

> If the last decade is any indication, skilled labor - especially those not afraid to own their own business, are set to make a killing. It's almost always been this way. I remember a reading a quote from a prolific 19th century author (whose name I can no longer find online, thanks to broken phrase searching in Google) complaining about enterprising carpenters earning more than his government salary. The issue is that it's not an apples to apples comparison. Small business owners who provide blue collar services can make significantly more than salaried white collar workers. However, runnig a small business requires a completely different set of skills, and the percentage of blue collar workers who can do their trade and run a successful small business is far lower than the percentage of people doing blue collar work.