The answer is paying a decent wage where people can work hard and be in the middle class. Working with your hands every day is great. I loved watching the sun come up every day experiencing the weather changes throughout the year. The feeling of accomplishment when the job was done. The best part which I lost once I had a job with more responsibilities is being able to go home after 8 hours and to not worry about the job. The greedy companies ruined that by cutting costs by creating unrealistic deadlines to save days and then hired cheaper labor with no benefits. They managed to break the Unions hold on construction and the addiction to cheap labor lead to a generation of stagnant or falling wages and a generation of a workforce who don’t think it’s worth it to get dirty. The corporations fueled the out of control immigration but you didn’t have to go all nazi to fix the problems. Just needed better immigration laws and enforcement decent wages to create a bottom up economy. More people means more demand and money circulating throughout the economy. Now money doesn’t circulate it stays in the hands of the rich who are now saving themselves more money by firing people and replacing them with AI and automation. We just watched American towns and even malls die because of shopping online. What does the future look like? Sorry this turned into a rant.
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