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Construction workers are making more than developers here in Uruguay at the moment, because their union is among the strongest in the country (while developers are not unionized).

But they'll all be out of work in the next economic downturn (on the other side, they didn't spend 3 to 8 years studying)




This was navvying not skilled tradesmen ie the ones that dug the ditches


I get it now... wow that is harsh.




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