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Legend has it we still don’t know (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Unskilled labor is a bullshit term used to diminish the work done by people in low paying jobs. Many people would say that a line cook is unskilled, slightly above flipping burgers or digging ditches. It's nebulous and useless for productive conversation

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

There are definitely jobs that don't really require any specific skills. If you can learn all of your duties after 1 minute of instructions, what would you call that? It doesn't need to be interpreted as a derogatory term, but it's accurate for a lot of positions.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

No you've missed the point. It has nothing at all to do with value or pay scale as you can easily see by comparing a B.S. grad in engineering with a trained plumber who will definitely make more money. All "unskilled" means is that you didn't go to school to start. Period. It doesn't mean it's not valuable or doesn't require skill, it means whoever started the discussion picked shitty words.