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Originally Posted by indes
Is this satire? Trades wages in O&G are even less than they were when I got my ticket in 2011...14 years of wage stagnation/deflation has been pretty rough. The average journeyman rate is around 45$/hr. 94k/yr (including 4% vacation pay) for the trades guys + ~6$/hr pension contribution if you're in the union. Also no paid sick days, PTO or flex days.
If you see tradesman pulling down 150k+ its because they put in massive overtime hours to get there. But yup, wwwwaaayyyy overpaid, heck they make almost as much per hour as a 5th year teacher.
Sorry for the derail. All people should be sticking together instead of watching the middle class collapse. I think wages across the board in all industries are a joke - companies raking in billions in profits while nickel and diming all their employees is gross. Easier just to finger point at who's getting screwed more I guess.
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I don't think it is satire. I am just guessing but I think the intent is that the people building the people of the future should be paid more than O&G workers. Or to put it simply: Kids are more important than Oil.
One mindset shift I have focused on is the populist notion of there only being 2 classes. "Middle class" is a lie to enable culture wars between workers. Upper-middle-class is just a bigger lie for the bug climbing to the top of the dung heap.
The only classes in our society are Working class and Owning class. If you are not a billionaire (or high level multi-millionaire) then you are a worker. Once we all get into that mindset then we should stop hating on other workers and trying to pull other workers down. That is literally what the owners want: Isolate us and have us fight each other instead of them.