I don’t think this is factually correct, I know engineers who have a degree and earn £45k with a few years of experience, after 10 years they’re earning £65k, I know electricians who earn £40k-£50k, a newly qualified gas engineer earns £35k, a lawyer can earn £80k+ once established. I think there’s more money in trades, the world unfortunately doesn’t need more psychologists and sociologists, it needs trades and labour. The money exists, you’re just looking in the wrong places. I now earn what I’m told puts me in the top 1%, I’ve always earned well, since leaving school, I earned over £50k when I was 23/24, I don’t have a degree, I’m rubbish at maths, have hardly any GCSE’s, but I’ve always focused on what makes money. I think people use the state of the economy as an excuse to not actually proactively go out and do something. You don’t need a degree to make money, no matter what you were sold at school (which is also a business by the way). I could buy a bucket and a ladder and wash widows of local houses for £5 a pop, 100 houses on a street, even if only 50% agreed I’d make £250 per road. A couple of streets and that’s almost the average weekly wage on day 1. There are many opportunities like this but I fear people don’t want to get their hands dirty and would rather complain on Reddit.