Ever seen someone doing their “unskilled job” all their life? It’s just fucking magic!
The truth is that capitalists hate skilled workers, because those workers have bargaining power. This is why they love the sort of automation which completely removes workers or thought from the equation, even if the ultimate solution is multiple times more expensive or less competent than before.
Nothing is more infuriating to a boss, than a worker that can talk back with experience.
The vast majority of “unskilled” jobs require an education of some sort, the difference is that because the average laborer in a given economy has had the minimum required education, we disregard it despite the overall Value creation being higher.
All labor is labor. Skilled labor is compressed unskilled labor.