Yeah a bold claim. But I don't know why it isn't standard in every industry that people do 2, 10 or 20 years at the 'coal face' at the bottom of the ladder before doing management, regulation, sales (other jobs related to the industry)
I worked in social care (providing care to elderly disabled people in the community). It was standard that (for want of a better word) working class people stayed doing front line work their whole career (exhausting and damaging to health as exhausting and so poorly paid) and middle class people (again for want of a better word) swanned into management and all the cushy well paid physically easier to do peripheral jobs helpline etc. without ever having done front line care.
This has the effect of making the industry run like s**t because the people with the experience are not in a position to use that knowledge so it goes to waste. Instead people with no clue run and ""support"" the industry in peripheral roles.
Another effect is it is a massive disincentive to get a job when it will literally take years off your life doing a job at 55 only a 25 year old should be doing. In my local city there is a 10 year difference in life expectancy between the poorest area and the richest area. Yes other factors but expect this feeds in a lot.
Don't tell me people 'like front line work' yes some may but really everyone from the same 'class' happen to all like poorly paid, physically demanding work where their decades of experience are ignored and count for nothing.....OK.
Please don't tell me this is what apprenticeships are for. Much more than a few apprenticeships this should be accepted as a fact of work life and should apply to more or less everyone in every industry as far as possible with obvious exceptions like preference, disability etc.
This would improve every industry (and probably society) and the employment and health profile of the nation. Tell me I'm wrong or tell me why we don't do this.