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Jason Fried · 2025-06-12 · transcript · source ↗

Why trades might be the most future-proof jobs

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software. It's also very hard to find really good crafts people, really good builders who you can trust, who have great taste, who look after the details. It's hard. I I'm I've I've been involved in a few different house renovations and it's when you find a great contractor, you feel incredibly lucky and fortunate. Like you feel like you lucked out literally because all you hear are horror stories. typically. So, I I think that that's a great opportunity, great place to be. I know we're going completely off track here, but Great. No, we're not. There's no off track. Do on track. Do you think there's more or craftsman trades people? I think about this sometimes in the sense of furniture. Like every piece of furniture, every shoe used to be handmade. Yeah. Now 99% of the stuff

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that you buy is IKEA and and manufactured. Maybe that's a good thing because it drives down cost, but it also I think it's a I mean it's it's it's necessary. Like there's a lot of people in the world. Not everyone can pay for handmade stuff. Um I think, you know, it seems like there's a bit of a resurgence for handmade stuff, too. But I think it's, you know, it's not ever going to come back in that way. It just doesn't make sense in an industrialized world. Um it it makes a lot more sense to be able to make things faster at a very good I mean, there's a lot of great quality and mass- produced items, incredible quality, in fact. Um, and then there's also the the artisan stuff that that you really, you know, you really want a pair of handmade boots cuz like that's the last pair of boots you ever want to buy and you want them to be fantastic and be repairable and and you want to pay for the care and attention