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You are misunderstanding me completely.
The trades suck. You should get a white collar job if you can. Higher pay, better environment, better benefits, doesn't destroy your body. And absolutely no one is saying "go be a garbage man".
That said, you can get wealthy by owning a business that employs tradesman. You're not out there changing tires, you are managing the people who do. At least until they don't show up for work, lol.
You will get rich on this path, but it's still probably not worth it compared to a nice white collar job that pays 1/2 as much but comes with zero responsibility or lost weekends.
Ah, sure. But that's... not an easy or risk-free path. It might be attainable for some, but not for the majority of regular people, even if they "hustle." It's not like you can start at the bottom, work your way up, and get promoted to "owner." You have to either start your own from scratch, or buy one, hoping and praying that it's not a lemon.
I don't know, I go back and forth. Like you I've spent time looking at buzbuysell and other business selling websites. It does seem like you can buy a profitable business for surprisingly small amounts of money. But I have to assume there's a catch, with all of them. At least, you'd have to do a ton of investigation to make sure it's actually sustainable. But I don't know, maybe that really is the answer. It's a capitalist system after all, so it makes sense that the business owners get the best rewards.
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