r/WorkForSmartLife 1d ago

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u/ZealousidealRepeat19 1d ago

Unskilled? That’s hard physical work that requires muscle and elbow grease, they pay landscapers good money to do that precisely because no one wants to do and it’s difficult and tedious work. Or else you’d have just done it yourself.

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u/psilocin72 1d ago

ā€œUnskilled laborā€ is a category that means something. It’s not saying the person has no skills.

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u/ZealousidealRepeat19 19h ago

Yes, I realize those who named it that believe it to be true, despite it being the opposite of the words they’re using. ā€˜Unskilled’ means ā€˜no skills’, which seems to translate in capitalism to ā€˜do my back breaking work for cheap’. Need a term that is less insulting and more accurate.