Someone redpilled me on the tradesperson sector recently.
By all means, these people may be able to enforce this crap in corporate jobs without risk of defection, but everyone still needs an electrician, a plumber, a joiner etc.
These are skills that produce real infrastructure improvements, and that most businesses and private individuals would really struggle without. There is always a demand for these skills, conservative values are often held by such workers, and businesses simply can't afford to be selective. The hierarchy is largely based on how good you are at the job.
In essence, you have a job with definable skills, that has demand and that companies can't afford to be selective about. It seems ideal for us.
If you work for a big, woke company, they could still have bias training. They could do affirmative action hiring. What you're seeing, I think, is that small businesses tend to be a lot more based and tradespeople tend to work in small businesses (sometimes very small). There are small businesses in every profession.
Once you have a trade, you don't necessarily need a job. You get a contractor's license or whatever certification and run your own company. Trades companies are like restaurants- there's always someone going out of business. And you're right- people will always need skilled tradesmen.
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