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A lot of trades not only require hands on experience as apprenticeships, but also buttloads of certifications / legal liabilities to sign off projects, which ac
by kwere 2y ago
A lot of trades not only require hands on experience as apprenticeships, but also buttloads of certifications / legal liabilities to sign off projects, which act as a sensible moat agianst unskilled migrant laborers that dont know the language well, let alone able to navigate endless bureacracy.
Also in a lot of trades once you have a "name" and book of clients its easy to work on your own and start a small business
- xkcd-sucks 2y agoNonono it's the apprenticeship business school model where you work summers to learn the ropes from your uncle who speaks trade Spanish + bankrupts a leaf-node company on every claim and penalty