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While we're on it, there is no such thing as "unskilled labor." The concept does not exist. You cannot take a boardroom CEO and dump them at a dock and call them a longshoreman and expect them to perform flawlessly. It is a fake idea designed to depress your wages
Let me put it this way: a job where you drive is today classed as "unskilled". Driving isn't considered a skill purely because a lot of people know how to drive. This is nonsense bullshit market speak.
The next person to try to debunk this with "umm truckers don't count as unskilled" needs to take the trucking license test and drive a long way away from me because I fucking know that you dorks, I said driving, not trucking
Go have fun before the tech CEO who never got a diploma because he got capital from his parents obsoletes your job with robots designed by people smarter than he is
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