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So you think you could be an electrician?

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  1. Lord_Zero · · focus · HN ↗
    One thing rarely mentioned is what happens when all the white collar people lose their job and can no longer pay for expensive blue collar work?
    1. defrost · · focus · HN ↗
      Simple enough, one group will be living in houses falling apart, the other group will be renovating distressed cheap housing into relative mansions to live in or flip at cost or less.
      1. theteapot · · focus · HN ↗
        What does that mean?
        1. taneq · · focus · HN ↗
          Tradies will buy poorly maintained houses and fix them up.
          1. rogerrogerr · · focus · HN ↗
            ChatGPT will tell everyone else (who cares to do it) how to do the same thing. It's not hard.
            1. defrost · · focus · HN ↗

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