https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/10/07/world/unskilled-workers-actually-arent/
The Japan Times had this editorial last week, which seems to have been reprinted from Bloomberg a month earlier. I don't recall any discussion of the original or the TJT repost, so I wanted to put it up here. The article contrasts the notion of "unskilled" against AI, but our community has been having a lot of discussions about downward wage pressure on ALTs and eikaiwa teachers, and so I think the article is a good opportunity for us to examine the we throw around the word "unskilled" a lot – in my opinion, uncritically.
by PaxDramaticus