• Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    No such thing as unskill labor. This phrase is pointed to push an image of saturation. If labor took no skill than why does a person need to do it? If it was so autonomous as to need no action at all, then it’s simply stagnant. Movement requires control of muscles, a skill learned early in life. A skill that one can loose if injury is sustained by the brain. A skill that can be learned twice if forgotten. A skill, nonetheless. Nothing a human does intentionally is unskilled. All intentional brain activity relies on skill. No matter how base that skill is, by definition, still a skill.

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      Playing games with the definition of the word “skill” doesn’t change the fact that these categories correctly predict market behavior regardless of the name you give them.

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        Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more skill /skil/ noun the ability to do something well.

        What games am i playing with the definition?

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          You’re stubbornly refusing to accept that polysemy exists, and as a result are insisting that everyone else use your definition instead of the commonly accepted one.

          Which, again, is all completely irrelevant since you can call these “A” and “B” and get exactly the same correct predictions.