I keep thinking of the classic movie “Office Space” in which the miserable young cubicle dweller throws his hated pencil-pushing career away and becomes a construction worker like his neighbor.
A lot of young Americans feel lost, can’t get a decent job that pays their bills, can’t find meaning in life, just “doom-scroll” all day.
Let them build stuff. Pay them a decent wage. Let AI do the pencil-pushing.
I keep thinking of the classic movie “Office Space” in which the miserable young cubicle dweller throws his hated pencil-pushing career away and becomes a construction worker like his neighbor.
“F___in’ A!”
That’s just what I did back in the 80’s - dropped the pencil and picked up a hammer, made more money and got stronger. All the guys I worked construction with were US citizens too, white, black, Latino, legal immigrants. We can get back to that in short order.