AI makes higher education even more valuable as it becomes even more important to have better logic, reasoning, and creative skills than a computer or robot. In the trades you’ve got no recourse if an automatic bricklaying machine comes out.
Trades end up running into the problem where you can only do so much work in an hour. Your customers will only pay $XXX to get a new toilet installed and you can’t install 10 toilets at the same time time.
Plus, the trades wreck your body.
Someone even made a "nothing ever happens" trade bot that was shared on here as a meme/experiment that always bets on nothing happening.
HN is such a beautiful, diverse meeting of the minds. Comments like this put a big smile on my face.