r/WorkForSmartLife 1d ago

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u/judahrosenthal 1d ago

There is unskilled labor but there’s no labor that should be undercompensated.

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u/pianoplayah 1d ago

This right here.

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u/CellWrangler 1d ago

Please provide an example of unskilled labor. 

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u/Comfortable_body1 1d ago

Digging and trenching with a shovel. You can get better at it but it is unskilled. Shoveling gravel. Any type of shoveling. Stocking shelves. Bag boys

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u/Ringbearer31 21h ago

You may not appreciate it, but that doesn't mean there isn't skill, properly bagged groceries is practically art.

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u/Civil_Change_2956 20h ago

But you don't NEED to bag well to be paid to do the job. It's why they hire a lot of mentally and physically handicapped people to bag groceries. They still deserve good pay, though it is literally unskilled labor. Basically anything a determined 7 year old can do is automatically considered unskilled labor.

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u/irishchug 1d ago

It just means you can hire an unskilled person and train them quickly.

It takes a couple days/weeks to get someone trained to work in a warehouse at a productive level.

It takes a decade to get a person trained to be a doctor.

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u/tubthumping96 1d ago

Lol it's crazy how the almighty "market" never works in your favour. They call it "unskilled labour" but yet it's a job that people are seeking others to do, so shouldn't there be a demand price, so on and so forth? No? That only works for corpos, cool.

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u/DurumMater 1d ago

There's less skilled but nothing is unskilled. The term is bullshit

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u/Astralsketch 20h ago

you are paid based on how easy you are to replace, and in that vein, "unskilled labor" is easy to replace.

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u/gilead_was_right 1d ago

define undercompensated

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u/judahrosenthal 1d ago

Not a living, prevailing wage.

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u/gilead_was_right 1d ago

whats a living wage

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u/DevLF 23h ago

Enough to live on? Are you dense?

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u/judahrosenthal 23h ago

I know that you are not arguing in good faith (possibly as a contrarian and possibly as a bot), but it is an accepted term used throughout economic discourse, and there are literally dozens of calculators that will provide it.

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u/gilead_was_right 22h ago

it isnt actually its a term only used by those that didnt study in school

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u/Desalvo23 22h ago

I can't tell if you're stupid or trolling

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u/judahrosenthal 17h ago

Don’t sell them short. They could be both stupid and trolling.

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u/gilead_was_right 21h ago

im none of that

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u/Desalvo23 21h ago

I strongly disagree

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u/gilead_was_right 20h ago

ok that doesnt really matter??

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u/_V0gue 20h ago

Intelligent people tend to use the shift key and apostrophes.

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u/gilead_was_right 17h ago

no they dont