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And that's the point I was trying to make I guess. It really disheartens me to hear such hopelessness from parents.

I grew up in the 80s, from the time I could read I was told that the path to a better life for people my age was going to be a college degree. That the blue collar life my parents had wasn't going to be a viable path to the middle class anymore for most workers.

You captured the essence of it, "Learn a trade" is code word for "Lower your expectations." And that's not to slight tradespeople in the least, some of the brightest and hardest working people I've ever known work in the trades. But this is what the Right is pushing, that working people are going to have to settle for even less.