Plumbers and other tradesmen are so hard to get in the current economy that I often see them be treated with the same reverence as doctors or priests when shit hits the fan. Maybe it's different in the US or UK but parents pushing their children into white collar and PMC jobs has created a massive void in our economy.

These parents must sell up everything and live in poverty to lend their white collar children just enough to qualify for mortgages to buy hyperspeculated ovepriced assets once referred to as "homes". Still no other system is possible then this aparantly.

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

Only the ancients had technology to build these so called "homes". A sort of hollowed out cube made from wood or concrete, with bent metal tubes, and twisted copper strings that could make light where the sun didn't shine, transport fresh water in and poop out. It's lost to us now. Only a handful of secretive "handy men" posses the knowledge and they keep it a well guarded secret.