Impossible.Beurocracy.Insurance.Unions.No demographic with the skills that must be learned early in life to do the work, hard ,dangerous work that requires trust and inate skills to acomplish
quickly and safely.
I aprenticed with some of the last marine smiths,
and also worked(very briefly) in a shipyard building military frigates, and spent 95‰ of my life next to the salt water.
Add to that my repeated attempts to conduct business as an entrepneur, only to be undermined by impossible (new) regulatory requirements, insurance requirements, labour (ha!) trouble, and
lack of scaled banking services.
I fill out the same tax form as the very largest companys in the world, and the government is generous enogh to give me a 9 digit space to fill in the amount of my return.
It is 125 years since the steel ship building industry took off, there are no mysteries around how it must be done, but the nature of the greed machine, means that China and Korea can put a finnished ship into service, for much less per pound, than I can buy raw steel.
The revolution we ARE going through, is the one where, fat, lazy, complacent,etc,etc,etc, so and so's, have very successfully captured all of the relevant power and control.
U'r not gona talk a ship into the water.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way and cheer!