• Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    LMAO, that’s a MADE UP job. It literally doesn’t exist. The amount of mandatory safety training from working in any factory environment excessedes that. That’s before you can start learning how to use the production software and automation that the company uses to measure productivity. Finally you have to do the actual task and learn the processes and exceptions that have made it so that the job isn’t cost effective to automate in the first place.

    Now that’s a big company environment. Big companies are the only ones with the economies of scale required so that your can even have employees that only do one thing. At a small company everyone has to wear many hats and there is no such thing as an person that does only one job “you could learn in 10min”

    It’s easy to imagine “unskilled labour” when you make it up in your head. What sucks is when you then use it to dehumanize and underpay real humans because of your made up fantasy of unskilled labour.

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      7 months ago

      Obviously someone that hasn’t spent much time in a factory and don’t know what they are talking about.

      Sure you got to go through all the safety requirements but that’s not a skill.

      I’ve seen job were people load material into a machine and people box finished good, or people destroying WIP, or people moving material, or picking up WIP.

      You are just confidently incorrect. A skilled job is something where you are trained and/or have experience in and it takes a long time to teach and learn. Unskilled is were you can grab people from the street and get them working within a day.

      Surely you can see why based on supply and demand and cost of training both for the person and the business that unskilled pays less. Why should they be paid the sane as skilled work? It doesn’t make sense.

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        7 months ago

        Yes, when you dismiss everything these jobs require as “not skills” then anything can be unskilled labour. Yeah of course working safely in an industrial environment isn’t a skill, even babies can do it, that’s why conservatives everywhere are trying to bring back child labour!

        • Wanderer@lemm.ee
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          7 months ago

          Well if you change the definitions of things then anything can mean anything.

          I don’t know what you expect. The fundamental reason unskilled labour is paid less is because basically anyone can do it. You can call it whatever you want but it won’t pay the same amount as skilled labour, or whatever you want to call that.