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Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ... by heavyset_go on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:36PM (#21976589)
Going to need a source, as well. Whenever these statistics are trotted out, they use figures from a few standard deviations to the right of the mean income, where the trades-person is usually self-employed at their own business that employs many others.
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Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ... by Balgair on Monday January 06, 2020 @11:40PM (#21976900)
The point was not to talk about plumbers, it was to reference the meme, so as to remind/give the reader a baseline idea that manual labor is not valued as the work itself, but the supply/demand.
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