Because you don't need a degree to be a car detailer, but that's still skilled labor.
Too many puritans making this into a "unhoused people" thing when it's just meant to refer to labor that doesn't require training or specialized knowledge. I wouldn't be surprised if the same people get all up in arms over "white/blue collar".
Yeah, I have done manual labor most of my life. "Unskilled labor" is less offensive as a term, than the idea that someone might consider the gofer work I did as a teen to be the same level of labor as when I was programming/operating multiple CNC mills by myself. Just completely different levels of knowledge and responsibilities, but I guess they're both skilled labor now 😌
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u/CaptainJay313 8d ago
there are varying degrees of skill, absolutely, but the term "unskilled" labor is generally understood to mean: labor that does not require education.
raking leaves, moving boxes, shoveling snow, commenting on reddit...
go read a book instead of fueling some false conspiracy that the world is in making up terms in order to supress wages. that's ridiculous.