You’re stubbornly refusing to accept that polysemy exists
That’s basically every fight with a grammar Nazi on the Internet.
In this case, the guy feels insecure about the whole skilled and unskilled labor issue and acts like its purely artificial distinction and that just meeting the barest definition of skill is sufficient to satisfy it. I just assume these must be the guys who could get perfect A’s in class if they really tried / weren’t already beyond what they were being taught and school is really useless / had enough money and if the entire world wasn’t against them.
Having said that, rewarding skilled labor significantly more than unskilled labor is really double dipping. People who are capable of skilled labor already have benefits at the very least in regards to access to markets other people don’t have. Ironically, the same impulse that drives skilled labor to get better benefits and salaries is the same impulse that people seem to think being labelled an “essential worker” should entitle them to regardless of how replaceable they are.
People should get living wages and there should be less wealth inequality, but this whole “essential worker” is just class warfare nonsense. Welcome to supply and demand, and the demand for “essential workers” went down. Happens a lot in the skilled labor market too, the answer isn’t “but I didn’t get mine’s!”, it’s thing like livable wages, having enough jobs, universal health care, universal income, all the things people at least began talking about before they were distracted into class warfare due to Big Data Cambridge Analytica troll factory disinformation campaigns by the ultrarich. Like I get people would be perfectly ok with leaving someone with a shit job in the trash just because they weren’t an “essential worker”, but they should try some empathy instead of thinking a label makes them special, whether it actually does or not.
That’s basically every fight with a grammar Nazi on the Internet.
In this case, the guy feels insecure about the whole skilled and unskilled labor issue and acts like its purely artificial distinction and that just meeting the barest definition of skill is sufficient to satisfy it. I just assume these must be the guys who could get perfect A’s in class if they really tried / weren’t already beyond what they were being taught and school is really useless / had enough money and if the entire world wasn’t against them.
Having said that, rewarding skilled labor significantly more than unskilled labor is really double dipping. People who are capable of skilled labor already have benefits at the very least in regards to access to markets other people don’t have. Ironically, the same impulse that drives skilled labor to get better benefits and salaries is the same impulse that people seem to think being labelled an “essential worker” should entitle them to regardless of how replaceable they are.
People should get living wages and there should be less wealth inequality, but this whole “essential worker” is just class warfare nonsense. Welcome to supply and demand, and the demand for “essential workers” went down. Happens a lot in the skilled labor market too, the answer isn’t “but I didn’t get mine’s!”, it’s thing like livable wages, having enough jobs, universal health care, universal income, all the things people at least began talking about before they were distracted into class warfare due to Big Data Cambridge Analytica troll factory disinformation campaigns by the ultrarich. Like I get people would be perfectly ok with leaving someone with a shit job in the trash just because they weren’t an “essential worker”, but they should try some empathy instead of thinking a label makes them special, whether it actually does or not.
Username checks out.
Yep, livable wages, having enough jobs, universal health care, universal income are The Obvious Solution.