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If the pay (At the lower/upper/both certification levels) were better, people would justify it.

• mdgrech23 4y ago
  Wife's Dad was a plumber. He made better money running hydraulic fluid to the machines at the GM plant than he did bringing clean water to people and disposing of their waste. This boggles me my mind. Clean drinking water and the ability to safely and sanitarily escort your shit out of your house is so vital yet these guys get paid shit. Capitalisms don't always reward what really matters.
  • jtbayly 4y ago
    Capitalism just says that whoever is willing to pay more has the priority. GM was willing and able to pay more than a single consumer? That’s not a surprise. Their factory couldn’t run without it.
• denimnerd42 4y ago
  The pay will never increase because you need the master to hire you to become a master yourself. So they have so much power. You just have to suck it up when you're young and then capitalize on your master license later. That's one reason it won't easily change. The masters have the power and they are entrenched with it. Will the masters that sit on these state regulatory boards or however it works ever vote to decrease the requirements? No it would have to be a revolution or coup.
  • morkalork 4y ago
    In smaller towns, some masters aren't even interested in taking apprentices because they don't want the future competition.