re: U.S. College Major with Highest Unemployment Rate...

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Tradespeople learn trades but rarely about money. You'll see tons of them working out of necessity until their body gives out.

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That hasn't been my experience.

Trades people that become self employed have been the opposite.

I've done real estate transactions in Gulf Shores with million dollar views for self employed plumbers.

Million dollar views in the blue ridge mountains for self employed plumbers.

Carpenters in the film industry paying cash for new construction in Costa Rica.

Not all trades are that way.
Self employed HVAC guys retire too.
But their typical home in the mountains is paid for. But hvac companies are a dime a dozen and he wasn't able to sell the company.

I don't see what you are positing at all.
Trades in Atlanta maybe have been much more successful than your area with the growth over the past 40 years.