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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's with people on this forum glorifying white trash. Stop romanticizing dirt.

HUGE diff. between blue collar dad, mom's a teacher, and the kids busting their ass to get into the state flagship U -vs- "blue collar" dad working dead-end job, mom working for minimum wage, kids are slackers with no future.[/quote]

What's with your calling blue collar, minimum wage earners "dirt?" [/quote]

Yes, I'm so glad we have PP here to draw the distinction for us so we know the difference between the trashy white blue collar people and the acceptable white blue collar people.  I didn't realize there were only those two groups of blue collar people.   :roll: [/quote]

The difference is acknowledging that times are a changing; there isn't going to be a blue collar middle class for millennials.[b] Barely a fraction of blue collar jobs even exist anymore.[/b] Middle class blue collar families that are on the ball really push their kids in school - they become engineerings, accountants, nurses, maybe lawyers here and there. White trash blue collar families don't really give a shit about books, education, etc. - their kids will be deadbeat drains on the economy.[/quote]

We actually have a trades skills gap. Its well documented. We won't see an entire class of people living middle class on blue collar salaries but we WILL see a smaller number living on higher wages than prior blue collar classes. The rest will go to lower paying service jobs sadly.

If my kid is "eh" about school I will 100% encourage him to go to trade school, save, invest, work in his industry and own his own company- our plumber has a paid off house in our neighborhood (about 600K), cash. I have 2 degrees from good unis and am applying to $50K a year jobs puttering around basically.[/quote]

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