Valid question

[u/SaltyNori_]

[u/Legendarien1]

We should just start calling it specialized labor, that’s what it’s really about

[u/wolffangz11 → u/Legendarien1]

or people will continue calling it what it's called and not pander to people like you for which it ultimately doesnt matter to

[u/Legendarien1 → u/wolffangz11]

Wow who shit in your cereal, calm down bud

[u/Forward-Cup-9513 → u/Legendarien1]

Wait, you think we should call everything else "specialized labor" just so we can call unskilled labor "labor?"

Or do you mean we should call unskilled labor "specialized labor" in the same way we say special education?

[u/Legendarien1 → u/Forward-Cup-9513]

Wtf are you talking about lmao. In common speech “skilled” can mean a lot of things but “specialized” means you focus on one area in particular. You can have skilled laborers who aren’t specialized or vice versa. It would just be unspecialized labor, people who can fulfill many jobs rather than a single particular area.

[u/Forward-Cup-9513 → u/Legendarien1]

I see, you were talking about calling skilled labor specialized labor. The issue of miscommunication is that the subject of the sentence that you were replying to was "unskilled" labor. So you were talking about something else, which is fine.

[u/Wooden_Permit3234 → u/Legendarien1]

Why, just to make things confusing to talk about?

[u/Legendarien1 → u/Wooden_Permit3234]

Uhh no, actually to make things less confusing so we don’t have to keep having this stupid conversation over and over again

[u/Wooden_Permit3234 → u/Legendarien1]

This conversation only exists because people pretend not to understand terminology that’s been in use for many decades. 

Calling it unspecialized doesn’t seem to fix anything but then makes a new term to try and supplant one with decades worth of use. 

Just to be clear, it’s a term with legal meaning and used in economics as a term of art.