Why does nobody want these high paying jobs?

I read a piece recently from NPR about high-paying, skilled trade jobs going unfilled. By skilled trade, I mean jobs that require training or certification in a specific skill but not necessarily a college degree. The NPR piece highlighted an ironworker named Morgan in Washington State. Morgan, age 20 when he was first interviewed in 2018, was making about $60,000 a year.

That’s pretty good right out of high school. The median income for a male in 2020 was about $61,000 per year. To visualize the median, imagine lining up all men in the United States…