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Something weird is going on with white boomers and millennials in implicitly seeing work as class preservation rather than actual production or material advantage-seeking. Thought experiment: what would your parents say if you became an electrician, and made more money doing it?

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The American anxiety about skilled trades is strange from an Australian perspective. Someone could drop out of Law school and become an electrician, start a business, make a killing and still command respect from former classmates. Australians are “desert people”

4:11 AM · Nov 11, 2020

Doers and builders - shame there’s so few of us. 100 million Australians would be a powerhouse

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