Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs" fame said he recently traveled to a data center in Plano, Texas, where he met three electricians under the age of 30 who are making more than $250,000 each.>“And the crazy thing is, all of them had been ‘poached’ three times in the last 18 months. So, the need is huge,” he said.Trade jobs can offer workers a reasonably comfortable living without the burden of student loans, advocates like Rowe argue. He says public perceptions about the work have long been negative, while higher education enjoyed a better reputation.>“We made that push at the expense of all these other jobs,” he said. “We basically said to a whole generation of kids, ‘Borrow whatever it takes to go this way because if you don’t, you’re going to be stuck turning a wrench.’”https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/trade-workers-national-security-issue-mike-rowe/https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/17/us-chipmakers-face-deep-labor-shortage-samsung-micron-sound-alarm.html
>>545629785I've made north of $200k working on the railroad, but I didn't have much of a life desu.
>>545629785If only there were a measure of value, like the right to exchange it for goods or services
Nobody thinks "hard work is bad". Everyone values industriousness, it's a truism like "being healthy is good". The actual nuance is what that's directed towards and whether the effort is worth it, or the rewards derived from it are fair; questioning this and potentially withholding the exertion of effort if one judges the answer to those questions to be "no" is not "laziness", but rather opposition to being exploited
>>545629785Is so literally any job if it paid well enough and didn’t compromise my morals.
>>545629785Mike should take the vaccine.
>>545629785If you’re not a man, that will do something about it, shut the fuck up you absolute faggot.
my dad worked construction and every job site was full of mexcians and drug addicts
>>545629785A data center creates three well paid jobs but destroys only 300,000 others. AWESOME!
>>545629785You're being scammed if you think all electricians make 6 figures.
>>545630191My mom brought in two shit step fathers. I've killed them both.
>>545629785That dude is a homo.
>>545629785This theater kid can be put up against the wall as well
>>545630191And I'm sure they were all perfectly qualified and knowledgeable to do things like the wiring.
>>545629785Hard work is dead. I've made $142,000 this doing literally nothing (unemployed, but own stocks).
My dad valued hard work, because 2 years of hard work was enough to buy a 5 bedroom house at the age of 22, cash.
>>545630045yes
>>545629952It goes to show how bad things are when you can have a decent paying job and still feel like you have no life. Money isn't everything.
>>545629952Do you own a QNT?A token called QNT not the quantum software, the company in finance...look into it. Just buy one and hold to 2032 and beyond
>>545629785laziness does not exist. Behavior is a response to enviroment.
>>545630045Just admit you're an antisemite
>>545629785If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Many such cases Mike
>>545629785actor who pretends to work on tv says stop being lazy
>>545629785Hard word is code word for free extra labor.
>>545630218I am making 6 figures even here, but its because I have an own companyIt is not worth it btw, blue collar workers are very low in the totem pole of society, at least here.
I only work hard enough to afford my current lifestyle and make my yearly pay raises slightly outpace inflation. if you're working 60 hours a week chasing the american dream you're just running after a target that gets further away from you every year. I only work 40 hours a week because that's the culturally mandated minimum amount of time I have to work each week to get health insurance and afford to house myself and pay for the few hobbies I have. and I mean, what's the point? so I can buy a jetski and even more guns? build a business that my kids will sell to some jews after I die and will be quickly forgotten? the only thing you have in this life is your family and your own happiness, achievement is a spook.
>>545629785>People valued hard workPeople also valued having a reliable government where people had social cohesion, felt safe, could afford things, and not have mass immigrantionBut yeah, I wonder where the decline of societal cooperation came from
>>545629785>just have a job shoveling shit in 1960 and you can have 10 kids like us boomer guys
ok boomer
>>545629785Pay = a life is the most boomer coded psyop in history.Yeah pay is important, but I'd rather do something I love that doesn't make me want to kill myself. That's not being lazy, that's having actual priorities. If people enjoy being electricians good for them.
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>>545630191fucking this. I want to see mike rowe deal with this shit on camera>pedro nigger rigs some deadly shit and says "its more better">having to avoid gen x opioid addict operating heavy machinery >jailbird niggers plotting to rob youget this massive faggot on camera dealing with this shit and maybe I'll consider blue collar work again. who keeps paying this faggot to go on this crusade
>>545629785>I work hard, did I mention that? Oh, you just forgot? Wait, you work minimum wage? You have my blessing.Yay!
>>545630045whoaaaaa this is a little too much nuance for my boomer brain. I'm gonna have to confirm this view with one of the 8 talmudvision boxes that run 24/7 in my house to see if I can agree
This nigger runs his mouth for a living lol
>>545629785>can't get ahead from working hardWhy work at all?
>>545629785What is the dollar value of seeing shitskins everywhere and being owned by jews? Is it 250,000 per year (with the caveat of giving up all of your time and material costs, transportation, advertising fees and taxes deducted later)?
>>545629785>HOW DARE YOU NOT VALUE THE SHIT THAT HAS LOST ITS VALUE?!? IN MY TIME...
>>545629785>he recently traveled to a data center in Plano, Texas, where he met three electricians under the age of 30 who are making more than $250,000 each.Build your surveillance grid, hungry goyim. It pays well.
>>545629785Wow 3 whole electricians for the state of Texas
>>545629785>even retards notice that hard work doesn't really pay off>so they just don't work hard because why bother>WTFFFF YOU STUPID GOYSLAVE WHAT ARE YOU DOING???maybe you should try rewarding hard work instead of giving all the money to jewish bankers and anti-human big tech
All these boomers are mad young people are opting to not participate nor add value to the stock market. When the party ends they will be the ones holding the bag.
So they need to resort to dirty tricks like infinity jeets, but infinity jeets fucks their comfort too.
>>545632025And it'll be the only bag with money in it. Unless we tear it out of their hands. With policy.
>>545632010.... as supervisors for their dad's firms in a comercial and industrial setting
>>545630045>>545630045Everybody talks about hard work while looking for every fucking shortcut people can find. I just paid 5000 to have trees taken down in my yard. The fucking idiots who had a tracked skidder and already were halfway to my yard through the woods they decided, because ikt was easier, to just drive over my 9,000 dollars worth of landscaping I have meticulously tended for 7 years. Why? Because it was easier and it took less time to do the easy thing. Now I have a logging road cutting through my backyard., total FUCKING LAZY STUPID IDIOTS WHO CARE nothing about someone else's shit but would wind up in a BHU or a have violent psychotic rage fit if someone so much as touches theirs. It's more than just laziness. It's the thinking they are the most intelligent people who ever lived combined with an utter lack of standards. The standard has become>That's good enougheven though it never is>good enough it's just easier.
>>545629785Real white men shouldWork hardReproduceRespect your governmentRespect the policeNever steal or do other illegal activitiesLove Jesus Christ
>>545629785He's right but not in the way he thinks he is. The people who don't value hard work are in upper management and executive positions and don't reward lower tier enployees with adequate compensation for their hard work.
>>545629785Boomers valueing abstract knowledge and ideeas instead of concrete knowledge.These past 2-3 generations we had, were real fucking idiotic. Full of naive idealistic views in politics and economy. Big jackasses
>>54563254110 years ago when one of these assholes asked 150 dollars to change the flexible connector under the kitchen sink, i decided that ill call the mother fuckers, look how they work, as soon as they left, i noted everything down in a sort of book.Other than changing the entire electrical wiring of the apartment, i pretty much know how to do it on my own. Even cement a whole in the wall.
>>545632768A hole in the wall*
>>545629785Men see people like mike rowe making ridiculous money for doing nothing and you wonder why they won't bother.
>>545629785uhh the days when hard work was valued are fucking gone boomer. The richest asshole on the planet are the laziest and most worthless fucks out there. No Rothchild has worked hard, no fucking arab sheik has worked hard, no fucking politician worked hard. In fact politicians became MULTI-MILLIONAIRES on salaries of <$100k
>>545629785also the average electrician makes like $60k. We need to fucking stop with this 6 figure trades bullshit. That only happens if you OWN the company. Almost no electricians are making $250k, that is a fucking fairy tale.
>>545629785If this prick got Kirked, it would be a very happy day.
>>545630279He's worked harder than you
>>545629785Men haven't become lazy.Employers have become greedy, arrogant narcissists that expect employees to all be H1B slaves and work for peanuts.I'm disabled and on disability, but if an employer were willing to offer me a living wage and free medical and dental, I'd be willing to try to work again for a couple years so I can buy a home.However, he'd have to overlook my disabilities and pay me a living wage, etc.. Something no employer is willing to do these days. Something most employers used to be willing to do. There is so much discrimination against the poor and disabled by all these narcissistic employers that have taken over literally everything. All of them act like spoiled rich women. It's sickening. I literally cannot survive in today's pure shit work environments. Even if I weren't disabled, I still couldn't do it without literally killing myself at some point because employers have all become abusive as fuck and are gaslighting everyone about it.
>>545629785Working hard for someone else, makes no sense. You just get fucked over. You make others rich. They take advantage of you.
>>545629785I make around 100k working 25-30 hours a week from home and could easily make over twice that if I got a better job, but that 25-30 hours a week would turn into 50 hours a week plus a long commute, plus getting up at 6 am. Too much work, I enjoy my comfy life and live pretty frugally. All of my friends to have 9-5's started balding years ago and look twice my age. I would rather live a stress free life and have tons of free time.
>>545630045>Everyone values industriousnessNaive whitecoded post>>545631082I don't respect blue collar workers much, but that's not because it's not dignified work. It's because nearly all of them are retarded foreignets or overweight or scummy or some shit. At least the ones I usually encounter. I have a deep appreciation for workers and artisans that really know their shit she produce high quality results but those are kind of hard to find
In my country, you need 16 documents to get a wage slave job at 7-11 stacking shelves (picrel). Don't ever let the boomers tell you what modern day work is like; they deserve death and eternal damnation in hell.
>>545629952>>545630027>>545630078>>545630111>>545630176>>545630209>>545630268>>545630272Mike Rowe spam threads are low effort, the same message every time for years, and are low hanging fruit. Guy majored in opera in college and got a TV gig on Fox because he's Jewish.
>>545630045>Nobody thinks "hard work is bad".What *is* bad is "hard work" with pay so low you barely afford to rent a shoebox dwelling, utilities, ramen, and costs of and associated with a shitbox car, just so you can go back in the next day and "work hard" some more.Government needs to start taxing "pay to live" business schemes and cashflows (renting should be taxed to 2x-3x what buying/owning should cost, for ex).
Damn. Maybe if employers valued and rewarded hard work then society would too?
>>545630463 #You only need enough money to live a happy life. If youre earning too much your life can suffer becusse of it.I've seen some pretty miserable people with a lot of money. Then theres people who like work more than life. Theyre the most miserable assholes in the world.If you ever hear about anyone coming out of retirement to go back to work theyre one of them. You can just assume this old fuck who refuses to retire is a huge peice of shit. They have to be souless miserable fucks to do that. They dont even love thier own families. They would rather just work to prop up this satanic society until theyre dead. They want to earn so much money thay they cant spend it all. Im sure many boomers would love to have pyramids built so they could be buried with all their money amd belongings.. money after all was created in Satan's minds eye.
>>545629785Because hard work doesn't pay. Working hard is a poor people mentality. Epstein didn't work very hard and was massively successful.
>work hard!for what? or else what?
>>545633359Rabbi Rowe has never worked, just talks shit.
There’s an easy solution to all this. Work the zoomers day and night.
>>545635326Pay should also be linked to caloric expulsion. Keeps people more fitGives them more money for food to replace spent caloriesPay reflects actual societal value rather than shareholder value.
>>545629785dude i am busting my ass to make a decent euro, and this DUMB FUCKING NIGGER has the audacity to just go "YEAH GOY GO WORK HARDER SO THE PEDOPHILE POLITICIANS AND THE NIGGERTROONS ON GIBS THAT WANT TO REPLACE YOU LIVE BETTER"What a fucking nigger
>>545635685I am not even a burger and i got angry at this
>>545629785Slave morality when people brag about how hard and horrible their job is to do. Kind of weird desu.
>>545635587Maybe just changing Dodge v. Ford so that employee life satisfaction is the corporation's fiduciary duty, and not shareholder value, could fix this.
