09-01-2017, 01:09 PM
(09-01-2017, 12:49 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Gah imagine if Bernie and well Hillary got their way to provide free college, like for those from families that make under 125k a year. Can you imagine how many more stupid people would be going into college on the taxpayer's dime, only to flunk out or just quit. All the while a family that makes 150k or so has to figure out ways to pay for their kids to go to school, leaving them in debt probably.
To the op :
As the Judge said in Caddyshack, 'the world needs ditchdiggers too'. I believe that to be very true, though to me ditchdiggers can mean any skilled, labor, or blue-collar kind of job.
Take truck drivers for example. Truck driving is the most important profession in our modern day world. Without them, our first world society would collapse within weeks, if not perhaps in days. The military keeps enemies at bay around the world. Farmers make sure our stores are stocked with food. Bankers make sure they are ripping people off in exchange for financial security, mostly.
But truckers are the lifeline of our society on a day to day basis. If all trucks ceased to operate for good starting today, grocery stores would be emptied in a couple of days. Gas stations would run out of gas & diesel in a couple or so days. Then everything falls apart as people will end up doing whatever it takes to survive. Our society isn't designed today to be able to flip a switch back to the 1800s and everything will go on as normal.
So absolutely skilled jobs are very valuable, more valuable than many of not most college educated jobs. They are the pillars that hold up our society to be able to exist as it does today.
Yeah, don't use truckers as an example. Those jobs will be gone soon, gone the way of self-driving vehicles.
