You understanding of our economic system is very deficient. Those good paying jobs you bemoan are what creates much of the economy...or once did.
I will never understand this opposition to middle class earning a decent middle class wage - that allows them to buy a boat, a camper, dirt bikes and take a weekend or week off.
...and not a single word of protest over people earning $9,000 an hour at the same company. Infuriating BS to me.
So you're against capitalism? Somebody oughtta make a law to cap what a company can willfully pay their CEO? And I s'pose you know who should be making the big decisions about who-gets-paid-what and what they should be making? Are you serious? Are you Antifa? OWS? Garden variety democrat troll? I personally don't think some CEO's are worth their pay. But hey, somebody or some group of people do. Not my circus, not my monkeys.
I'm not bemoaning the good paying jobs. The union didn't create the jobs. They just fleece the employees and the employer. Since you opine on what I don't know I'll return the favor. You don't know when someone is pissing down your back and telling you it's raining.
Us po' folk down here in the South buy those mentioned luxuries just fine without unions. Don't like the conditions, wages or benefits? Work somewhere else. Educate yourself. Start your own business. No one is forced to work anywhere. Anyone willing to work can have a decent life. Grifting unions create false economies at inflated levels with unsustainable benefits packages. The cost of which is universally spread throughout the country, thankyaverymuch. And after that they're firmly in the democrat camp. Northerners flock down here after they retire (that and blood thinners) cause they can afford so much more than they could up north in the inflated local market. Problem being they bring their northern attitudes and voting habits with them as a general rule.
But we do manage to "re-train" a few. d;^)