Poverty in America

Assuming we don’t have an economic collapse or go into a full world war and that I have the ability to keep a job long enough where I don’t have to worry about having a roof over my head I did plan eventually trying to go back to school in becoming a plumber. Why a plumber? Many trade unions employ plumbers and residential or commercial plumbing companies make an obscene amount of money just for on site visits. Another reason is that I don’t think robotics or automation will replace plumbers in the next fifty years, certainly not master plumbers or engineer plumbing.

Yes, there is certainly a lot of that. My only problem is that I’ve never been good at kissing the ass of anybody and as far as social networking goes I have none.

In many areas of the United States it is all about who you know whether it’s family or friends, in a single phrase occupational nepotism can describe many areas of our economy.

Why does mentally retarded Billy work for the company? It’s because mentally retarded Billy’s father is a manager there that got him the job pulling some strings. The United States isn’t the quaint meritocracy it likes to describe itself under government.

Two days ago my wife and I ordered two plumbers. Plumbers are still needed. But the interesting question is whether they will be replaced by machines in the next fifty years. It is quite possible, because the technological development is an exponential one.

A basic standard plumber maybe but not a master plumber for the simple reason that they are the ones in concert with a building architect that lays out the plans where water or sewage pipes run all throughout a building [residential, commercial, and industrial.] and of course you need somebody to lay them out in construction also. Then you have septic tanks in removal and replacement as well. In large urban municipalities you have large networks of underground sewer tunnels that also requires the services of master plumbers. This is my understanding anyways.

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See: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=185562&p=2688864#p2688864 .

Zero, you don’t wanna be a plumber man. Go and get a history degree and become a twisted high school teacher who tells the truth to the youth.

This coming from somebody that disagrees with everything I believe in is amusing.

Your lack of sincerity is noted.

You’re terrible at reading people.

It’s the internet, what do you expect? Everybody is horrible at reading each other if it isn’t video format.

Not me.

What am I thinking about right now?

The inevitable destruction of society and/or your own personal grievances with it.

Nope, I was thinking that I have to go to work in a hour and how I need to take a pass in the bathroom. You’re horrible at reading people also. :sunglasses:

Yeah but you hate work. So that counts as “thinking about a personal grievance”. Also, I know that you never stop thinking about the destruction of society, so for you to say that you’re not is just a lie. I understand though. You want me to be wrong, and you’re not used to having the kind of control that you’d have in a game of someone guessing your thoughts. But don’t lie man. You’re better than that. I was right and you know it.

While I do think of the destruction of human civilization a lot it is bit of an exaggeration to say that I think about it all the time. :wink: Yes, I do hate work especially working for other people.

You still were incorrect where no matter of misdirection will work.

I’ve literally never been wrong about anything.

You’re wrong in supposedly not being wrong in anything which in the end illustrates your wrongness. :-"

Wrong.

Funny.