@drewdevault In many societies, some jobs are highly rewarded while others are not. E.g.: construction workers or plumbers make very low wages, while specific university professionals make high salaries.
This "distorts" the script a bit: suddently everyone is expected to study a high-paying profession, which creates a situation where everyone competes for those few slots and nobody wants to be a plumber.
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@whynothugo (which results in a shortage of plumbers and increased wages for the plumbers... Balancing it out again)
@whynothugo Yeah, that just doesn't line up with the two plumbers that I know.
(at least where I live) People quit being a plumber because of "dealing with other people's 💩".
Your example may apply better to factory workers though.
@whynothugo Raising your wage as a plumber generally involves going independent (which is a much smaller capital investment than say, creating your own factory)
@zachdecook Yeah, this might vary per region.
Construction worker is usually a good fit too. I've worked with people who hated mental work and would prefer to do phyisical labour all day, but they worked with me in IT because they couldn't make a living off any form of physical work.
@zachdecook Experience shows that you end up having a lot of poorly paid plumbers and it's incredibly hard to find a good one.
Maybe the folks who'd be good at it might just be hard to find, or they might be chasing some better paid goal, as per the script. Maybe because it's poorly paid they never focus on improving in their trade?
I can't explain the causality, I can only point out the result.