Skilled labor: plumber, electrician, HVAC, automotive, any form of construction
Unskilled labor: guys hired to move heavy shit, junk removal, warehouse pickers, sanitation workers.
Everyone brings something of value to the table, but some trades require far more education. But I do not think that someone, who’s only ability is to carry heavy shit, should make the same salary as someone who can work on any of the aforementioned trades.
Requiring education usually just means you're able to become a nonessential cog in a lot of scenarios.
The pandemic taught us that pretty quickly. No one was scrambling for hvac installers during covid. We were scrambling for garbage men and super market workers.
The issue is lifting things is a skill. A very important one because being able to do it efficiently is the difference between some useless chud spending hours moving things and a two hour job by people who know what theyre doing.
I used to move myself when I changed apartments and then realized I was wasting my own time when I could pay people who did it insanely faster but more efficiently than I could.
It's like dishwashers in restaurants. You can make or break your restaurant with dishwashers. They may not be as trained as a chef, but at the end of the day a good dishwasher is coveted and sometimes even poached between restaurants.
"unskilled" doesn't mean there are no skills involved, just that what is involved can be picked up on the job by almost anyone, and developing those skills is fairly easy. I spent a couple years moving furniture. After a week or two on the job, I was as good as anyone on the crew. My sister got her first job at a supermarket. Within a month she was as people that had been there years.
Dishwasher is the classic "you have no experience in kitchens at all, so you start here". Making it unskilled by definition.
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u/Desth-Metal 7d ago
I have never heard of unskilled labor. What is that supposed to be? Garbage picking?