Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
by _dps on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:52PM
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I think you've misunderstood what I meant; I mean incentives for businesses to pay their people more (or to offer something like apprenticeships).
As for status not being lowered by words, we'll have to agree to disagree. No one in practice (in the US) calls medical school "vocational school" precisely because it is a phrase associated with lower status work in the trades.
Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
by lotsofpulp on Sunday May 23, 2021 @08:43PM
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Yes, people use vocational school to refer to schooling that requires less time, cost, and generally has lower barriers to entry. This results in a higher supply relative to demand, resulting in lower prices for the labor, and that is the causative factor for lower “status”.
You can change the name from vocational school to Nobel school or whatever, but as long as people are not earning high wages, it is not going to change any perceptions of “status”.
That incentive is the $x per hour. And the low $x per hour relative to quality of life is what causes the status lowering. Status is not lowered by a couple words. A doctor spends a ton of time in “vocational education”.