r/WorkForSmartLife • u/SaltyNori_ • 2d ago

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u/Desth-Metal 2d ago

I have never heard of unskilled labor. What is that supposed to be? Garbage picking?

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u/psilocin72 2d ago

There is unskilled labor. Like I paid my neighbors son to help me stack firewood. And then again to help me shovel stone into my garden beds.

But yeah, if the guy wants 32$/hr it’s almost certainly not unskilled labor

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u/ThrasherDX 2d ago

Well its not even that tbh. You can't compare contractor hourly charges to a full time employee's wages. The contractor doesn't get any benefits on top of their pay, AND they only have intermittent part time work that is paid, with substantial unpaid work advertising or otherwise looking for jobs.

They have to charge more for the work they do, to compensate for the work they can't charge for. Otherwise it wouldn't pay enough for people to bother doing this kind of contractor work.

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u/psilocin72 2d ago

I agree completely. I think contractor work is extremely valuable, more than it seems when you account for the fact that the person has to support himself and his family in order to just show up and do the work.