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The Loss of Apprentices
We live in an age of cheap money.
Most anyone can have almost unlimited credit and spend it. Thus
it becomes a peer necessity for the young to have money to spend.
There is also peer kudos in going to University, study some invented
knowledge, get a degree in order to validate the inventor, and become
a Blair Bureaucrat holding down an invented job, which earns lots
of money and requires no skill.
The tide has turned against the apprentice. No kudos in being an
apprentice. A very rough ride for the typical illiterate yob turned
out by the Blair idea of education. No easy money. Nothing to dig.
In this political climate in which peer politics makes an apprenticeship
incorrect, the young stay away in droves. No point in running a
high profile apprenticeship campaign that goes against the tide.
We should do better to re-introduce real money to replace credit
and build a basis for self respect in the young by creating a climate
in which skill is once again the envy of all.
Good old Fred Dibner showed us how skill puts a cloth cap among
the stars.
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