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America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs

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185 points hhs | 1 comments | 13 Oct 24 15:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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hooverd ◴[13 Oct 24 16:18 UTC] No.41829232[source]▶
Can this be the next thing tech democratizes?
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gjsman-1000 ◴[13 Oct 24 16:25 UTC] No.41829287[source]▶
Nope. The average tech worker would be screaming about these working conditions being unreasonable for any human by the end of Day 1.

I’m being partially sarcastic, but partially honest in that tech workers are often ludicrously blind to how good they have it.

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1. feedforward ◴[13 Oct 24 17:10 UTC] No.41829656[source]▶
How ludicrously blind are the heirs who collect dividends on Oracle stock to how good they have it?

I guess the workers doing the work and creating the wealth are lucky that Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt etc. illegally conspired to do wage-fixing so that they and the heirs they work for could get more of the wealth that others created.