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"Retarded" used to be the new sensitive word for what they called a "Moron". He's not a moron he's just "Retarded (slowed)". Now retard is one of the the quickest, cutting insults you can dish out. The word shifted when it got applied to people with metal disabilities.
I guess what I'm saying is, even if we don't called unskilled labor "unskilled labor", lets say we call it "duck jobs" eventually the neutral term "duck jobs" will shift when we apply it to shitty jobs that don't pay well and anyone can do. I used to work a few duck jobs out of school, like loading trucks, but eventually I got back to college and got an internship that lead to a goose job. Now I hope to never do a duck job again.
The point is that those jobs should not be paid badly
It's not about creating a new word to distinguish it, it's about eliminating the distinction
Right, cause being a business owner means they have unlimited money for wages. The distinction is meaningful therefore it will always exist.
You should not be running a business if you cannot pay your workers.
Not all jobs SHOULD pay the same. certain jobs require little to no thought, or engagement. It literally takes "NO SKILL" to do. that doesn't mean you can't work hard at doing it. Take cleaning for example. cleaning takes no skill. take something that's dirty, and make it clean. it doesn't take any skill to run a mop. there's zero reason that job should pay the same as someone who went through some kind of training, be it trade school, college, classes, etc, to do. If you homogenize what everyone makes, there is no drive to improve yourself.
The word shifted when it got applied to people with metal disabilities.
It's never NOT meant someone with mental disabilities. Mentally Retarded is/was a medical term. The sensitive retards in the world made it "not politically correct" to do that.
Euphemism treadmill