• LoamImprovement@beehaw.org
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    7 months ago

    Probably doesn’t help that, at the very least, there’s a stigma about those jobs not being able to provide a comfortable living. I know I’d sweep floors if it paid $50 an hour.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      My wife’s father worked carpentry in a factory.

      Carpentry.

      He has a retirement and a decent pension. He ate shit for his 30 years, and now he can putter in his woodshop all week.

      That’s last-gen. It’s not so long ago that the good life was still within reach. It can be again.