I think it’s worse than a single generation because you need wages to be competitive for long enough that people are encouraging their children to try it. A goo

I think it’s worse than a single generation because you need wages to be competitive for long enough that people are encouraging their children to try it. A good decade won’t do that, and especially not without improvements in our healthcare and retirement systems since physical trades are harder and the richer boomers are pushing to deal with the savings gap by raising the retirement age for everyone younger than them rather than restoring taxes to actuarily-necessary levels. Being a plumber at 60 isn’t for everyone.