Imo, it is because those jobs are gatekept for specific kinds of people. It is not about the difficulty. In fact, the more education, the easier the jobs get because the lowest class is assigned all the hard manual labor like farming, cleaning, etc. The credentialist system is designed specificaly for inequality and exclusion
It’s just a different kind of difficulty, and of course not all jobs are created equal. But ultimately this rhetoric is the kind of thing the capitalists want. They want to pit “lower class” against “upper class”, when in reality, these distinctions are entirely irrelevant and it’s actually “the billionaire oligarchy squeezing every last drop out of the rest of us”. If you work for a living, you are “low class”.
Read “Caste: the origin of our discontents” and you’ll see that income stratification has always been about class, race, sex, and other arbitrary traits. There are “pink collar jobs” assigned only to women. I’ve witnessed anti-male discrimination in Direct Support & Nursing jobs for example and this is because that is not their “place” in the caste system. It’s not a rhetoric; it’s observation, evidence, and an accurate model of soceity
Imo, it is because those jobs are gatekept for specific kinds of people. It is not about the difficulty. In fact, the more education, the easier the jobs get because the lowest class is assigned all the hard manual labor like farming, cleaning, etc. The credentialist system is designed specificaly for inequality and exclusion
It’s just a different kind of difficulty, and of course not all jobs are created equal. But ultimately this rhetoric is the kind of thing the capitalists want. They want to pit “lower class” against “upper class”, when in reality, these distinctions are entirely irrelevant and it’s actually “the billionaire oligarchy squeezing every last drop out of the rest of us”. If you work for a living, you are “low class”.
Read “Caste: the origin of our discontents” and you’ll see that income stratification has always been about class, race, sex, and other arbitrary traits. There are “pink collar jobs” assigned only to women. I’ve witnessed anti-male discrimination in Direct Support & Nursing jobs for example and this is because that is not their “place” in the caste system. It’s not a rhetoric; it’s observation, evidence, and an accurate model of soceity