That organization is, allegedly, a pro-labor organization trying to support the lower and lower-middle working class, and their study is based off the assumption that those population cohorts are idiots, effectively. It's such a stupid thing to assume, and ignores the thing I (and you) keep saying about the outer-bands of the income levels of the "trades" (which they base that data on to calculate the ROI).

Part of our whole argument is that a lot of people in the trades are not dumb, and those people move onto more white collar versions of the trades (management/supervisor positions, ownership, etc.). Yet we are attacked for hating on them....when we're not, and that group, which claims to support them, basically calls them all idiots.

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Posted by lsu777

Lake Charles

Member since Jan 2004

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Posted on 5/10/24 at 9:15 am to SlowFlowPro

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That organization is, allegedly, a pro-labor organization trying to support the lower and lower-middle working class, and their study is based off the assumption that those population cohorts are idiots, effectively. It's such a stupid thing to assume, and ignores the thing I (and you) keep saying about the outer-bands of the income levels of the "trades" (which they base that data on to calculate the ROI).

Part of our whole argument is that a lot of people in the trades are not dumb, and those people move onto more white collar versions of the trades (management/supervisor positions, ownership, etc.). Yet we are attacked for hating on them....when we're not, and that group, which claims to support them, basically calls them all idiots.

i find it funny af that a bunch of guys in cubicles on this board, cant seem to grasp that the white collar type jobs in the trades are not the norm and the people in those positions are the types that prolly should have gone to college or at least had the IQ to.

its also telling in these threads......can easily tell who has spent time in the trades or alot of time around people in the trades. most of the posters pushing the trades would be flabbergasted by just the language used