I feel like that’s actually pretty logical. “Skilled labor” involves skills that not everyone must have. The things that (nearly) everyone needs to be at least okay at are the things that come up in people’s lives most frequently (things like basic cleaning, socializing, and administrative/organization tasks). Without people to do the things that come up most often, society is going to fall apart.
I’m split on the name though. I understand what it means and don’t take offense (I currently work at a bakery, but I’ve also been a waitress and worked in a call center, all unskilled jobs- I’ve also worked in litigation management for an insurance company and I currently teach German classes too, which are skilled jobs, fwiw), but I get how it rubs some people the wrong way.
Maybe unskilled workas can call each other that, if they don’t use the hard ‘r’?
Okay, okay, “labour isn’t as bad as slavery” and it’s “inappropriate to joke about that on the internet.”
But yes, maybe the term is demeaning; and maybe it doesn’t need to be. I suppose in the end the point is we should value those labourers and their work, even though economically they’re easier to mistreat and belittle.
I feel like that’s actually pretty logical. “Skilled labor” involves skills that not everyone must have. The things that (nearly) everyone needs to be at least okay at are the things that come up in people’s lives most frequently (things like basic cleaning, socializing, and administrative/organization tasks). Without people to do the things that come up most often, society is going to fall apart.
I’m split on the name though. I understand what it means and don’t take offense (I currently work at a bakery, but I’ve also been a waitress and worked in a call center, all unskilled jobs- I’ve also worked in litigation management for an insurance company and I currently teach German classes too, which are skilled jobs, fwiw), but I get how it rubs some people the wrong way.
That makes sense.
Maybe unskilled workas can call each other that, if they don’t use the hard ‘r’?
Okay, okay, “labour isn’t as bad as slavery” and it’s “inappropriate to joke about that on the internet.”
But yes, maybe the term is demeaning; and maybe it doesn’t need to be. I suppose in the end the point is we should value those labourers and their work, even though economically they’re easier to mistreat and belittle.
SPRICH