• daed@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean… I get what you’re trying to say, but I think your passion is misplaced. It’s a nice thought, of course everyone wants to feel valued for their labor.

    Certain labor is worth more than others. And some labor does not require any skills. These are facts. Picking something up and moving it over there does not require any skills unless you want to get silly and say that basic human coordination is a skill. There are jobs out there for simple manual labor like this.

    Everyone that works full time deserves a living wage. Funnel your passion into that point, not the one that is objectively incorrect and will sway people away from your main and very valid point.

    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      some labor is worth more than others

      Duh

      some labor does not require any skills

      Wrong.

      picking something up and moving it doesn’t

      Yes it does. Proper lifting technique, the muscles to lift whatever it is, coordination and balance to not drop that shit, likely math skills would be involved in such a job, likely written language skills as well.

      Just because you can’t think of the skills it requires immediately doesn’t meant there isnt skill being used

      All labor is skilled in some way, thus all labor should be paid fairly.