>One, they watched tradecraft in the fifties slowly kill their parents before OSHA was really a thing This is a really good point---to some extent we can see c

>One, they watched tradecraft in the fifties slowly kill their parents before OSHA was really a thing This is a really good point---to some extent we can see college as individiuals reacting to working environments---"inefficiently" in that it doesn't solve the problem, but it solves it for them---meanwhile eventually society handles it as a whole. I think there can also be a "prestige" thing going on---jobs that aren't prestigious can become less well-paid (relatively), because those with prestige can at some point say, "Why are we paying these undesireables all this money, can't we bring in some immigrants/subsidize substitutes/outsource?" Which means that it's quite possible that certain trades could become much more valuable, very quickly---as we've seen in nursing, for instance.