There was a post I saw of some twitter thing where I guy was complaining burger flippers wanted wages like him deliver packages and they don’t deserve that kind of skilled wage??? Burger flippers are on a ladder that leads to chef. Not sure where package delivery leads. Really if a person goes for skilled or unskilled the real thing to me is no one should really make more than 10 times someone else. Especially when the highest paid are not necessarily very skilled anyway.
At risk of running against the obvious tide here, if you take the word “skilled” literally then of course everyone becomes skilled in whatever job they do. However, here “skilled” is used not literally, but in the sense of the industry term that means the job generally requires formal training and/or qualification before employment.
Edit: Not to say I don’t think it’s not a demeaning term (possibly intentionally so). It’s a sucky word but let’s not allow ourselves to become overly indignant by misconstrueing the sense of the term used.
This is a response to Mike Rowe and other like-minded individuals (not OP):
Unskilled labor does not exist.
There was a post I saw of some twitter thing where I guy was complaining burger flippers wanted wages like him deliver packages and they don’t deserve that kind of skilled wage??? Burger flippers are on a ladder that leads to chef. Not sure where package delivery leads. Really if a person goes for skilled or unskilled the real thing to me is no one should really make more than 10 times someone else. Especially when the highest paid are not necessarily very skilled anyway.
At risk of running against the obvious tide here, if you take the word “skilled” literally then of course everyone becomes skilled in whatever job they do. However, here “skilled” is used not literally, but in the sense of the industry term that means the job generally requires formal training and/or qualification before employment.
Edit: Not to say I don’t think it’s not a demeaning term (possibly intentionally so). It’s a sucky word but let’s not allow ourselves to become overly indignant by misconstrueing the sense of the term used.