[moooo99]

> What an extremely elitist phrase.

This! I hate when people talk about "unskilled labor" because there is no such thing. There definitely is work that requires less training than other jobs, but there is no such thing as unskilled labor.

[busterarm]

You're certainly glad that your uber driver can't be suddenly promoted to airline pilot though, right?

[moooo99]

So you would define an airline pilot as skilled labor but driving an Uber (I have never used Uber, so I will compare it to a taxi) as unskilled labor.

Flying a plain certainly takes a skill. So does driving a car. Both are skills. They certainly differ in the time required to obtain that skill, but that does not change the fact than an unskilled person can't drive a car through dense urban traffic bringing you safely to your destination, neither can they land a an airplane.

If a job was really unskilled, anybody could do it without any training at all. People usually don't pay for actually unskilled things because they can do it themselves just as good

[goodpoint]

So what?

Besides, driving a car safely is very much a skill. It's life-saving by definition.

[bigbillheck]

Uber drivers have to pass an examination by the state which usually requires many hours of lessons and supervised training. How is that unskilled?

[busterarm]

85% of Americans have a driver's license too.

[bigbillheck]

A skill being common doesn't make it no longer a skill.

[busterarm]

But common skills don't command elevated wages.

[bigbillheck]

We're not talking about wages, we're talking about who counts as 'skilled labor'.