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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

"Retarded" used to be the new sensitive word for what they called a "Moron". He's not a moron he's just "Retarded (slowed)". Now retard is one of the the quickest, cutting insults you can dish out. The word shifted when it got applied to people with metal disabilities.

I guess what I'm saying is, even if we don't called unskilled labor "unskilled labor", lets say we call it "duck jobs" eventually the neutral term "duck jobs" will shift when we apply it to shitty jobs that don't pay well and anyone can do. I used to work a few duck jobs out of school, like loading trucks, but eventually I got back to college and got an internship that lead to a goose job. Now I hope to never do a duck job again.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The point is that those jobs should not be paid badly

It's not about creating a new word to distinguish it, it's about eliminating the distinction

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right, cause being a business owner means they have unlimited money for wages. The distinction is meaningful therefore it will always exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You should not be running a business if you cannot pay your workers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Not all jobs SHOULD pay the same. certain jobs require little to no thought, or engagement. It literally takes "NO SKILL" to do. that doesn't mean you can't work hard at doing it. Take cleaning for example. cleaning takes no skill. take something that's dirty, and make it clean. it doesn't take any skill to run a mop. there's zero reason that job should pay the same as someone who went through some kind of training, be it trade school, college, classes, etc, to do. If you homogenize what everyone makes, there is no drive to improve yourself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Euphemism treadmill

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The word shifted when it got applied to people with metal disabilities.

It's never NOT meant someone with mental disabilities. Mentally Retarded is/was a medical term. The sensitive retards in the world made it "not politically correct" to do that.