"Hey middle America, sucks that you went to trade school because college is expensive and doesn't yield the returns required to justify the expense but we are going to need you to cover the costs of all those art history degrees of the kids who got high and screwed around."
I was a dishwasher/line cook in my 20's, I could hop jobs on a dime. Got fired one Friday, and had a better paying job Monday and that was in 2008. I wasn't even that good.
Did you believe you could deliver better long term compensation? This phrasing suggests that, it's a clever way to suggest something without promising it.
Yes, it's called forwarding a narrative as opposed to reporting on objective facts.