• @curiousaur@reddthat.com
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    101 year ago

    Yeah, I’m an engineer. I’ve been a server, and I’ve washed dishes. I could go back to doing either of those, your average dishwasher could do neither of the others.

    • Franzia
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      61 year ago

      There is skilled labor. There is no such thing as unskilled labor.

    • @unfreeradical@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Some skills may be more common than others, but their distribution throughout the population is not the same as their occurrence within any natural ranking relative one to another.

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          1 year ago

          There is no natural distribution of any social role. A distribution is determined socially.

          Further, I already addressed your conflation of occurrence within a population for a skill versus its intrinsic attributes.

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              Nature is that which occurs independent from the particular intentions of individuals or the particular configuration of society.

              Human societies occur within nature. We utilize and transform facets of nature toward our needs and ends. That which we create or produce is not natural.

              In various societies, members tend to express different behaviors, are subjected to different experiences, and have different roles and relationships.

              At any rate, the distinction is not required in the immediate context. I am now repeating for the third time that the distribution of an item or class of item within a system is not the same as its intrinsic attributes.