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[–] Decoy321 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's still disingenuous to call it unskilled, though. Even those jobs require rudimentary skills that not everyone has. If we diminish the value of these skills, we're just devaluing people even further.

[–] Argonne 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

What do you want to call it? Just curious, we love to criticize but not offer suggestions

[–] force 8 points 9 months ago

Why try to draw an arbitrary division like that in the first place? There are a lot of "skilled labor" positions that don't actually require any certification or training. And there are a lot of "unskilled labor" positions that do require training. It kind of just seems like a way to dismiss certain types of labor as "lower" than others, at least that's how the term is used in a majority of contexts.

[–] aidan 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Unspecialized is a bit less dismissive of a term

[–] maniclucky 8 points 9 months ago

Generalized would be a good contrast to specialized that generally lacks biases.

[–] maniclucky 3 points 9 months ago

I got into an argument with someone about this. I ended up proposing generalized versus specialized.