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Re:Pyramid of Capitalist System by mytailorisrich on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:24AM (#22256628)
Software dev, and many if most jobs these days, are not labourers.

A labourer is someone with no special skill or trade. Stacking shelves is a labourer job: the only requirement is physical strength.

Software devs are generally highly skilled professionals like perhaps lawyers.

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Re:Pyramid of Capitalist System by mytailorisrich on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:48PM (#22258938)
A labourer is "a person doing unskilled manual work for wages." Obviously, software development isn't a "labourer" job, 'technically' or otherwise, and isn't labour in the standard meaning of the term, either, although it is of course work.
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