I really like how you keyed in at one point on classism. Trades people are part of a vital and often very well compensated sector of the US economy. Yet somehow we've been conditioned to look down on or not respect people who make things and build things.

Carpenters, electricians, machinists, etc are some of the most highly skilled people I've ever met. It takes them years to master their trades, and they have to acquire not just good manual skills but enormous bodies of knowledge.

But because of a classist divide between the trades and the professions, tradespeople are often looked down on, and then they end up getting left out of social progress because nobody's paying attention to their needs, because a lot of people are just not paying attention to them at all.

Thank you for writing this story and shining Light on a problem that feels like it's been ripped right out of the 1970s or 80s.