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It's not elitist. Some skills are effectively commoditized. They don't require specialized, rare knowledge, years of training and constant personal investment
by busterarm 4y ago
It's not elitist. Some skills are effectively commoditized. They don't require specialized, rare knowledge, years of training and constant personal investment.
If you pick a job that literally anyone else can learn to do in a few days, then the cap on your salary and lack of bargaining power is on you.
- foobarian 4y agoI mean, it is elitist. Is that inaccurate? What I don't get is why that is supposed to be bad. It's just a fact.
- function_seven 4y ago"Elitist" is almost always used as a pejorative. Just looking up the definition of it points to social power, wealth, class hierarchies, etc. It is rarely used to just mean "smart, capable, skilled" in a neutral sense. The comment above was clearly using it as a pejorative.