> Education/Training is only expensive because it is subsidized by the State. reply
The death of apprenticeships is because you are training your own competition. It worked in the past because you trained your kid for a trade that was arcane and took a couple decades to master, but now you'd be training someone with no loyalty to you in a field that can be speed run in a year or so with YouTube assistance.
Apprenticeships died long before YouTube. Their decline in the US is linked to the decline of trade unions who sponsor them.