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None of the icons in this meme are classed as "unskilled labour".
A farmer? a bricklayer? are you fucking joking?
Do you have any idea how much a bricky gets paid. Probably more than you.
Another classic case of arrogant internet socialists with zero real world experience letting the mask slip.
Is there such a thing as "skilled labor" as an inverse, or is that also a capitalist myth?
Trades is a good example. Plumbers and electricians are generally paid quite well. Specialist industrial trades, welders, etc. can be paid amazingly well.
Although so can grass cutters, pool boys and painters and they seem pretty unskilled to me.
Sure, you can mow a lawn, but how many lawns can you mow in a day and still do a good job? Those guys are skilled at maximizing the efficiency of the business. If you took a good existing crew and replaced them with all fresh people with no experience, the business would probably fail pretty quickly if you don't make enough money to pay for their labor.
Technically i am an "unskilled worker" because i did not finish university. Didn't stop me from being the guy who develops the network chips in the company.
What about supervising? All I can tell what they do differently to everyone else is sit at a desk and forget to order stock.