Some of it is well intended - trades can be lucrative especially for people who are less interested in office work - but a lot of it is also to try and dodge the issue that the some of the industries that employ the most people in this country treat them all like shit. Retail, hospitality, and food service workers don't deserve to be paid as well as plumbers and electricians because they didn't go to school.
Also I've heard it's to weaken the construction unions (which is the real reason tradespeople make good money)
Edit: To elaborate, it's bootstraps stuff. You don't have to go to college to be comfortable, you can go into a trade too! Don't question why a burger flipper doesn't deserve a living wage though.
Yeah I've heard of roofers working in places like Florida making 8$ an hour, which is just unbelievable. I can't imagine anyone when i was growing up stepping on a roof for less than 20.
That's a really good example. Similar industry to the trades, maybe slightly less intellectual labor but a whole lot of physical labor and job hazard, but because there's no guild protecting them they get treated like garbage. The solution being pushed is never "set up a roofer's union" though, it's always "don't be a roofer".
Some of it is well intended - trades can be lucrative especially for people who are less interested in office work - but a lot of it is also to try and dodge the issue that the some of the industries that employ the most people in this country treat them all like shit. Retail, hospitality, and food service workers don't deserve to be paid as well as plumbers and electricians because they didn't go to school.
Also I've heard it's to weaken the construction unions (which is the real reason tradespeople make good money)
Edit: To elaborate, it's bootstraps stuff. You don't have to go to college to be comfortable, you can go into a trade too! Don't question why a burger flipper doesn't deserve a living wage though.
Yeah I've heard of roofers working in places like Florida making 8$ an hour, which is just unbelievable. I can't imagine anyone when i was growing up stepping on a roof for less than 20.
That's a really good example. Similar industry to the trades, maybe slightly less intellectual labor but a whole lot of physical labor and job hazard, but because there's no guild protecting them they get treated like garbage. The solution being pushed is never "set up a roofer's union" though, it's always "don't be a roofer".