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It's not evaporating, but there's not a lot of profit in it for the individual contractors, nor are there a lot of people employed.

And as solar installation continues down the "shingling the roof" - there's already an industry in place to take care of that.

If we want solar to sustainably employ a lot of people, installation alone is not the way to do it.

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Commercial construction sustainably employs a lot of people (and commercial buildings last a minimum of 50 years). HVAC installation and repair sustainably employs a lot of people. Roofing sustainably employs a lot of people (and shingle roofs typically last 20-30 years).

I can name lots of other industries just like this. You're just spouting nonsense, or you have unreasonable expectations. If you're expecting solar to employ gigantic swaths of people in this country, you're being unreasonable; you don't expect that of HVAC or shingle roofs or just about any other industry, so why would you expect this of solar?

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