• canni@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    My man, this is not an argument for or against capitalism.

    If two skills are of relatively close societal value, and one is harder to do, learn and master, that craft deserves more respect.

    This is not a reflection of any individual.

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      1 year ago

      Society is not uniform or monolithic. Society has structure, including various relations based on interests that may be shared or antagonist.

      Social value is not intrinsic to skill, nor to any other target of valorization, but rather determined from processes of valorization bound to the surrounding social systems.

      It is unequivocal that our society valorizes labor not for benefit shared generally across the public, but specifically for its value to private business.

      It is also questionable that a skill itself may carry a demand for respect that is separable from respect as understood by having a personal target.