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The bright or ambitious ones end up running their own companies and do very well. At our municipal political level, the developers can drive the politicians and do quite well. Consider the Ford brothers in Toronto, or even Donald Trump on a larger stage.

I haven't figured out who works on the giant corporate farms, we don't have them on this coast. In California I see Mexicans, and the smaller farms here are often Sikh-owned and worked.

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Trump was hardly a tradesman. Neither were the Ford brothers. Not that the Fords are particularly good examples of political success in any really meaningful sense. They took office and did nothing useful with it.

Understand, I have nothing against the trades. They're important and useful. But telling every demoralized white kid to go become a plumber as though this is the path to power and riches is simply delusional, and does a great service to the enemy.

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