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Beau challenges the concept of "unskilled labor," arguing that all work requires skill development and deeming the term as a method to devalue workers.
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Well, howdy there, Internet people. It's Beau again.
So today, we're going to talk about a term that we hear pretty often.
We hear it on the news all the time, especially during the business segments.
And we might even use it every once in a while.
And we're going to talk about that term and why we should probably stop using it.
Today, we are going to talk about unskilled labor and why it isn't.
It's not unskilled.
We're going to do this because something happened and honestly, it's been cracking me up ever
since I saw it.
I kind of giggle every time I think about it.
If you don't know, the workers at John Deere, well, they're on strike.
Management's response to the strike was to tell the salaried employees, generally white
collar employees, well, y'all just go fill in.
It didn't even take them a full day before they crashed what appears to me, based on
the photo, to be about a $350,000 tractor inside the plant.
I'm certain that whoever has the job of moving that equipment around inside there, I'm certain
that that's unskilled labor.
But it's really not.
It takes skill to do it.
And it's not just manufacturing jobs or blue collar jobs the way we typically think about
them, even in the service industries.
Think about waiting tables.
You go in and sit down at a restaurant and the waiter or waitress, they're just not up
to it.
Something's off.
They're forgetting items on the menu, don't know the special, forget to bring the drinks,
whatever.
What do you normally say?
They must be new, right?
Why?
Because it takes time to develop the skills to do that job right.
The idea of unskilled labor, it's a fiction.
There aren't a whole lot of jobs you can just walk into and do well.
It takes time.
So why does that term get used?
It doesn't match up to reality.
Why does it get used?
Because it helps devalue the work that is done by those people.
It helps devalue it.
Therefore, when you find out they're only making eight bucks an hour, you can say, oh,
well, they should have got a trade.
They should have gotten education.
No.
I mean, I don't think that that's a fair statement.
It's a job that people want done.
And if somebody is putting in the work, they should probably have access to a decent life.
The whole idea of saying something is unskilled labor is to diminish the value and diminish
the pay that the workers get.
It's a term that needs to go away.
There are not a whole lot of jobs you can walk into and just do it.
You have to learn what you're doing.
It is skilled.
May not be credentialed.
You may not have to go to school for it.
But the skills are still required.
Because any time you go somewhere and you know that that person doesn't know what they're
doing because they don't have the skills, you think they're new.
You don't go back.
The skills are required.
It isn't unskilled labor.
It's just a method of devaluing the workers.
Anyway, it's just a thought.
Y'all have a good day.
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