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I think a more objective analysis would have been for skilled vs unskilled labor, supply/demand and age stratified. It seems like a pretty series of infographi
by claytongulick 2y ago
I think a more objective analysis would have been for skilled vs unskilled labor, supply/demand and age stratified.
It seems like a pretty series of infographics that are oriented towards some sort of narrative the creator is trying to impress on folks, something about guilt and unfairness?
It seems like the author put in a lot of work in order to demonstrate a thing that most people intuitively understand:
There's a large supply of unskilled or low skilled labor, so wages are less and the jobs are crappier and more physically demanding.
If you age stratify it, I feel pretty confident that you'd also see a trend that shows that most physical labor is performed by younger folks, and the percentage of their day spent doing physical labor mostly decreases as they progress in their lives and become more skilled.
I'm not talking just about desk jobs, I'm thinking (for example) of an apprentice electrician vs master electrician. One of those is going to get stuck doing the more physically demanding work while the other is in more of a supervisory role.