"We wont need doctors or lawyers after armageddon, but we WILL need carpenters and plumbers!!".
Further proof the bloody fool doesn't know what he is talking about!
Construction activities also require the services of para-professionals such as quantity surveyors, drafting technicians and survey technicians, as well as professionals such as architects, structural engineers, civil engineers and town planners (these are cited as examples only - the list is by no means an exhaustive one).
All these professions together contribute a much different set of skills than that which can possibly be provided by even somebody holding an advanced trade qualification.
For a few brief years during the "quickbuild" kingdom hall era of the late 1980s and early nineties, it seemed like the WTS had finally woken up to that one. If so, then the likes of this bright spark has just as quickly forgotten!