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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
Spot on!
I think you could replace “pay” with “knowledge required to complete job”, and the graph would still be fairly accurate.
Oh, man, Nick, you’d be surprised sometimes. I’ve met some pretty ill-informed specialists, and I’ve required some surprisingly detailed knowledge to complete some tasks as a general labourer.
What exactly is a “general laborer”? All I can think of is construction guys.
i would agree that a general laborer would usually be a construction guy. and ive worked with a lot of construction workers that knew way more than any specialist ive ever seen.
i’d imagine a ‘general laborer’ to be a textile worker, a guy on a factory line, etc.
construction workers often require much more overall knowledge of the process than the guy that checks the caps on pickle jars.
This economy is hammering the specialists.
I think the two dots on the graph have been labelled the wrong way round. Most of the general labourers I know earn way more than the specialists I know!
There might also be a factor of “do you get paid for it.”
There are plenty of strange hobbies that a handful of people have been able to parlay into a living.
It is true. People with more special knowledge get high salary than ordinary people.
General Labor — unloading boxcars, surveyors assistant, jobs you can get through Manpower, etc.
A lovely pun on the literal vs. customary definition of “odd job”…
this could be in the case of physicians: General practitioners and Specialists