I agree with you.
Skilled trades would be a good future choice for some but just like most other screwed up aspects of our country, it is not run by capitalism but by the government. The corupt government gets to decide who gets licensed, what the test is about, how much money it costs and who gets to bid on jobs. If it were truly capitalism the best skilled tradsman would get the job.
I agree but we need to speak this view clearly. This is not a failure of free markets because we don’t have a free market. This is a failure of government run economics.