Maslin: DC and Silicon Valley signaling is making industrial trades attractive again
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Vulcan Elements CEO John Maslin discusses the cultural resurgence of industrial work among young Americans.
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“Through things like re-industrialization, that conference, and just all of the signaling that DC cares about this, that Silicon Valley cares about this, we're making it sexy again to some fourteen-year-old, some eighteen-year-old who says, I want to go and build and serve this country with my hands.”
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