I would think the sissification of American males has something to do with it too. They’d rather be perpetual college students or corporate eunechs than get dirty and work with their hands.
True. There is a lot to that, and for some reason, Americans seem to look down on people who work with their hands or pursue a trade. I have no idea why. It takes intelligence and skill to be successful in most trades - more than it does to sleep through freshmen college classes.
It would also help if young American males had fathers, brothers, uncles, cousins and their peers working in these trades.
They have to be exposed to the reality of hard, dirty physical work - and of potentially high wages.
Otherwise, what's on offer is clowning around in the service industry serving food and booze.