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Pyramid of Capitalist System

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71 points mpiedrav | 1 comments | 06 Feb 20 14:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.251s | source
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whatshisface ◴[06 Feb 20 15:04 UTC] No.22256451[source]▶
One surreal aspect of the modern system, when viewed from the perspective of 1800s leftism, is that there are many programmers (laborers, technically) who have more money than the average landlord. How do you draw the pyramid then?
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mytailorisrich ◴[06 Feb 20 15:24 UTC] No.22256628[source]▶
Software dev, and many if most jobs these days, are not labourers.

A labourer is someone with no special skill or trade. Stacking shelves is a labourer job: the only requirement is physical strength.

Software devs are generally highly skilled professionals like perhaps lawyers.

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TOGoS[dead post] ◴[06 Feb 20 15:56 UTC] No.22256966[source]▶
Horse hockey. All labor requires some skill. That doesn't make it not labor.
1. mytailorisrich ◴[06 Feb 20 18:48 UTC] No.22258938[source]▶
A labourer is "a person doing unskilled manual work for wages." Obviously, software development isn't a "labourer" job, 'technically' or otherwise, and isn't labour in the standard meaning of the term, either, although it is of course work.