• TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You have to learn something to do the job. It literally doesn’t matter what you do, it requires knowledge and effort, that is not no skill.

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      1 year ago

      Low-skilled/unskilled labor” is a term used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to categorize work that requires little or no experience or training to do or consists of routine tasks.

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        1 year ago

        Everything takes training, routine or not, I don’t care what a capitalist government organization decides it is. You can’t just walk on to a job and start doing it.

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          1 year ago

          This is eerily reminiscent of conservatives getting mad that gays can get married and instead wanting them to have “some other word”

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      We know what you mean and in a very literal sense you are right. However, there is both a legal and colloquial definition that basically means “low to very low skill job.”