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> What an extremely elitist phrase. This! I hate when people talk about "unskilled labor" because there is no such thing. There definitely is work that require
by moooo99 4y ago
> What an extremely elitist phrase.
This! I hate when people talk about "unskilled labor" because there is no such thing. There definitely is work that requires less training than other jobs, but there is no such thing as unskilled labor.
- busterarm 4y agoYou're certainly glad that your uber driver can't be suddenly promoted to airline pilot though, right?
- goodpoint 4y agoSo what? Besides, driving a car safely is very much a skill. It's life-saving by definition.
- bigbillheck 4y agoUber drivers have to pass an examination by the state which usually requires many hours of lessons and supervised training. How is that unskilled?
- busterarm 4y ago85% of Americans have a driver's license too.
- bigbillheck 4y agoA skill being common doesn't make it no longer a skill.
- busterarm 4y agoBut common skills don't command elevated wages.
- bigbillheck 4y agoWe're not talking about wages, we're talking about who counts as 'skilled labor'.
- moooo99 4y agoSo you would define an airline pilot as skilled labor but driving an Uber (I have never used Uber, so I will compare it to a taxi) as unskilled labor. Flying a plain certainly takes a skill. So does driving a car. Both are skills. They certainly differ in the time required to obtain that skill, but that does not change the fact than an unskilled person can't drive a car through dense urban traffic bringing you safely to your destination, neither can they land a an airplane. If a job was really unskilled, anybody could do it without any training at all. People usually don't pay for actually unskilled things because they can do it themselves just as good