• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I feel like it should be called “primary” labor or something to that effect. “Skilled” labor that can’t function without “unskilled” labor to support it can be called “secondary” labor.

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      4 days ago

      Everyone here should take an into economics course. Skilled labor are jobs that require certification and whose titles imply specific skills eg a mason or an ophthalmologist. No one believes that unskilled jobs don’t require skills rather those jobs don’t imply specific skills or duties.

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        4 days ago

        Economists should take an English class then. Why use a word to describe a thing that doesn’t mean what the word means?

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          3 days ago

          It means exactly this in the context of economics. What the people complaining are doing is taking issue that the jargon doesn’t mean what they think it should mean.

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            3 days ago

            We are complaining about the fact that the field of economics is a tool only of the rich. They exist to justify wealth and greed. You wrap it in jargon and chortle about it when you are allowed in the parlors of your betters. I’ve been there, I’ve seen it.

            Words matter and your choice of words sucks.

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              We are complaining about the fact that the field of economics is a tool only of the rich.

              That’s simply not true and suggests a lack of experience with the subject.

              They exist to justify wealth and greed.

              Again further substantiating this idea that you have zero experience.

              Words matter and your choice of words sucks.

              Right back at you as you are whining about concepts in a subject that you know you know nothing about because you never studied it.