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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It won't stop. The more accessible formal education is, the less valuable it is on the market. Supply and demand.[/quote]

And people can't make a good living with working class/ blue collar jobs. What are we going to do, America?[/quote]

Really?  Ask your plumber what he makes. Now ask your electrician. [/quote]

+1 The plumbers and HVAC people I know are [b]loaded[/b]. They are buying second homes, nicer cars, and going on grander vacations, all while they're kids are going to private schools. They don't have a bachelors at all.[/quote]

I love when this topic comes up on DCUM because you are all so ignorant and clueless! Plumbers, electricians, etc. with the second homes and fancy cars are small business owners who worked their tails off for decades to get there, and more power to them. But the average tradesman? In a non-Union shop, which by the way, are the majority of businesses in 2016 in the DC area AND flyover country? They make about $40k for a 50-60 hour workweek. To make more they have to do more 24/7 emergency on call shifts, Christmas, holidays, the works. This fantasy of plumbers and electricians making "great money" is nothing but elitist misunderstanding of the way the trades really are these days. Signed, DW of a former plumber, 15 years experience, (non-Union) who never made more than $55k in DC nor in two flyover cities, while working 60+ hours a week. He is now in sales and fnally on an upward trajectory in his career.
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