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in the US more affordable options are priced or regulated out of existence such as trailers and with gentrification even the cheapest housing would not be covered under most jobs including teacher salaries
plumbers and other construction workers even with experience may only get $15 hour or less and that is common here too
another trend popping up here is no living in hotels with the max being 30 days total in a year
and homelessness is illegal in a lot of places here as well so the end goal has to be more slave prison labor and a better controlled population
Where are you in the US that plumbers and construction get paid less than most fast food places? I'm in a red and rural area and plumbers here are pulling in 90-100k starting and construction is starting around $25 an hour now. Trade skills make money.
If accurate, I would say that that is probably not very reflective of the national situation.
https://www.servicetitan.com/blog/plumber-salary
There's also a per-state breakdown, which doesn't show dramatic variation.
where are you? travel all over the US
the owners make bank maybe but not the plumbers hired on to alleviate the workload
I'm in the south, and I have friends who work for these companies and even run their own. There is a difference if you're not licensed though, but even then they're not making just $15 or less an hour.
agree but those people talking about are probably over 40
younger people licensed or not are being shafted when it comes to pay and treated like expendables
one of those plumbers know eventually gave up plumbing and he was damn good
I have several friends who are electricians / carpenters / roofers / contractors. They all tend to work about 6 months out of the year, make bank, and then spend the winter travelling. They could work more if they wanted to, but they just don't want to, and know they can pick up work basically anytime they want. One electrician friend of mine lives in a small town and is working on forming his own business (which would employ only him), and expects that he will out-earn his wife, who is a physician's assistant, if he chose to work full time.