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[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 4 points 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 1 points 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.

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