solarpunk memes

Anyone who has worked "unskilled" positions can tell you that every job has a learning curve and experience counts for a lot.

This is particularly true in jobs that require a degree of physical endurance and manual dexterity. Picking a vegetable is easy. Picking a thousand vegetables an hour (without bruising the produce or ruining the plant) for eight hours a day is quite difficult. And skilled workers are far more lucrative to the farm owner than clumsy neophytes.

What often defines a service worker as "unskilled" isn't the work, but the degree to which automated capital and real estate ownership are integrated into the workflow. The more leverage the employer can exert over the hiring market, the more easily they classify labor as "unskilled"' and downgrade the pay.

Skilled or unskilled. If you do a full day's work, you should be able to support yourself and family.

We should also take care of those that are unable to do so.

People take offense to the "unskilled" part, and it's just a stupid nitpick. Unskilled doesn't mean that it's an unimportant doofus jobs, it means it's a job that almost anyone can do. That doesn't make it unimportant.

Everyone can help haul stuff at a construction site. Everyone can collect garbage bags around the city. Everyone can deliver mail and packages. These jobs require no special education, you can literally get hired and start tomorrow without any training. But that does not make the job unimportant.

This post just feels like the person looks for another wording to be mad about.

When you start really thinking about it, often unskilled jobs are nearly all the necessary jobs for humanity to survive. No one is going to suffer if your PhD army can no longer update twitter, I'm afraid to name the percentage, but most skilled jobs are useless in the sense that they're not really making anything of value.

I think SEO jobs are good example of this.

That's no accident. A job is considered "unskilled" (or "unspecialized" as I like to call it) if any adult who's gone through the education system and is reasonably healthy can do. Since society would collapse without these jobs, we want to do everything we can to make sure we always have people who can do them. How do you make that happen? By designing the education system to teach everyone the skills to do them and making it mandatory to complete your schooling. As a result, nearly everyone is capable of doing some of the most important jobs for our society.

It's wild that no one can look up how unskilled labor is actually defined.

it's also far less unskilled than people assign credit for. all work is knowledge work

Nicole when she is not catfishing Lemmy users.

It's only really a measure of how easy you are to replace.

How quickly we threw those COVID hero's to the trash

For a brief moment in 2020, they temporarily relabeled them as "essential workers".

It just really meant they didn't matter, and they were the fodder for the virus.

I vote we call them 'core contributors' from now on.

The oldest jobs, which are the most important, are in some sense paid what they were when the job was created, so mothers are paid nothing, while farm workers, cooks, homemakers are paid next to nothing.

There is no such thing as unskilled labor. But there is a difference between labor used to develop and labor used to perform.

Skilled labor refers to jobs that require certification and training that imply specific distinct skill sets. For example if I tell you Im a mason, a plumber, or a radiologist you know exactly what my skills are.

Unskilled labor jobs are not jobs that lack skills rather they are the roles whose titles do not imply specific skills, tasks or educations. Im a wine importer what does. that tell you about what I know or can do? Can you tell my skill at say driving a forklift from that title?

Unskilled labor doesn’t mean you have no skills

Billionaires don’t actually work. The higher up the work chain the more you get paid, and the less you do.

Don’t worry. Republicans have a plan. Forcing births of unwanted children with no resources to house, feed, or educate them while relaxing child labor laws should fix that right up.