Yuuup. Trump getting elected once was the writing on the wall, I wasn't going to wait and hope he didn't manage to return to power. Turns out that was a great decision, the Netherlands are amazing.
All of your descriptions are hardly unskilled, those take a good deal of education, practice, and in the case of plumbers legal certification that probably involves an apprenticeship. It's absolutely a skilled profession.
In my youth I briefly worked for a temporary agency and did a bunch of odd tasks to fill in when needed. The least skilled thing I did was for a newspaper: sliding racks of newspapers from a conveyor belt onto a long table, watching this massive table vibrate the newspapers for a solid couple of minutes (to prevent pages from getting stuck together as the ink dried), then throwing in the day's collection of laminated ad inserts into each set, and then pushing the boxes onto the next conveyor belt down the line. Training was thirty seconds of instruction.
I would call it 'labor' because it doesn't need any adjectives or qualifiers. It's just work, somebody laboring at a task.
I saw this attitude growing up around evangelicals. "God gave man sovereign control of the earth to benefit us" kind of nonsense.
These assholes see a beautiful park like Yosemite and are disgusted that it's full of people relaxing and enjoying the scenery; because all they see is a forest of trees to cut down and a mountain range just waiting to be mined.
They don't care about the long term consequences at all because they're also convinced that Jesus is going to return any day now, and when he does the entire planet is getting incinerated as all physical reality of the universe is summarily disintegrated as god sends all the good people to heaven and the rest of us losers to hell for all eternity.
I don't know how many times I've heard the argument that NOT clear cutting the world's forests was actually bad stewardship of the planet that their god 'gave' us.
They were two of the richest men on Earth, meeting after Epstein had already been convicted for child sex trafficking, very intentionally scratching each other’s back and bolstering each other’s charitable endeavors. The relationship between them — and what compelled both to build one — should be seen not as a lapse in judgment but as an indictment of billionaire philanthropy itself.
My rule as DM is that players can freely expend their normally limited resources if it's done for role playing or fun and doesn't affect the story, combat, etc.
Druid wants to spend all evening as an owl in the rafters of the barn? Cool. Wizard wants to create a pocket dimension in which he can then use Wish to create the universe's best ganja and smoke it in peace? Awesome.
Artificer wants to ... wait, he wants to do WHAT with his pants? Okay fine, but we're cutting to black for the evening. And there may be assassins in the morning now.
Based on my sample size of the one Dominoes restaurant in Nijmegen (Netherlands): it is better outside of the US. Still not great, but better. The chicken shoarma pizza could possibly be considered 'good' if it were fresh, but that location only does delivery so...
Okay but why is Ikea monitoring Iran's nuclear program?
... oh, I need to new glasses.