"Plumbers regularly earn more than lawyers": Top entrepreneur makes a bold prediction that AI will flip the American Dream
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For decades, the standard formula for financial success was the same: go to college, get a degree, and land a prestigious white-collar job - probably a lawyer, consultant, or investment banker. But entrepreneur and author Daniel Priestley is sounding the alarm on a major job-market shift. He suggests the traditional hierarchy of labor (white-collar over blue-collar) is actually flipping.