[pclmulqdq]

Looking at the moon landing and the Manhattan project, you hear about the very few PhDs on the program. They were outnumbered at least 100:1 by skilled tradespeople who manufactured components of those programs. None of those manufacturing jobs need a college degree, just time and focus, which a college degree detracts from by taking 4 more years of your life. You should look at the LHC for a modern example. Even these feats of science need a small minority of people employed in them to be trained scientists.

[watwut]

Manufacturing still don't require college.

But, qork in manufacture sux. Also very related, those job were either replaced by machines or moved abroad.

[inawarminister]

Sucks for who? The capital owners? Compare being employed in a regular shift in a production plant to irregular shifts in 2-3 different "sharing economy" apps.

Manufacturing moved abroad seems one explicit failure of Western post-war economic system for me. And here I'm from the third world myself.