Billionaire says: "Why not become a plumber instead of going to college?"

[DonCoquixote]

31. as the son of a plumber

let me make the point:

Of course, we need to treat tradespeople a hell of a lot better. My father would walk into many a doctor or lawyer's office, and the idiot would be clueless as to why they need to shut the water down when a backflow was busted. You wanna drink sewage sir, that's fine, but your clients will sue you. We need UNION tradespeople, as many a yuppie will glaldy seek out non union types to do their job at half the price.

However, just because tradespoeple need respect doesnot mean we can overlook what Bloomberg MEANT. His kind want to keep working class kids out of college, because then you could have class advancement, where kids with vowels in ther names could actually threaten to sneak intio the push and cushy places of power that college acts as the gatekeeper for. W. probably could not have gotten into a Low tier Texas Community college, but because Yale is a gatekeeper of power, he got in.