any time that we see a semi-coherent community form around a type of labor, we know that labor develops certain capacities, builds in certain skills, and organizes the laborer's body/mind/affects in such a way that this adaptation is retained. they are qualitatively "skilled labor" and have communal skill sets that are maintained across a labor market.
this implies that such labor, often considered unskilled, actually is skilled in a certain concrete sense, and that such laborers would derive the economic and political gains of this status except for social biases, repression, and mystification by status and rank.
capitalist society maintains its own affordability through this mechanism, denying the status of some fields and professions and repressing their percentage of aggregate wealth in order to overinflate others. this overinflation allows the support of a bureaucratic class from aggregate wealth.
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