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A chef is a skilled job. Because you need skill.
Flipping frozen burger patties is an unskilled job. Because you don't need any skill.
There are a number of skills that go into working fast food, and your dismissal of them is part of the problem.
Yes, there's a number of skills that go into putting your clothes in the morning as well. But any able-bodied human can do the job with a day of training.
This isn’t true. Watch some POV videos of people working fast food jobs. No one is saying that McDonald’s and vascular surgery require the same amount of skill and training, but that’s not the point. We need to recognize that what’s considered menial is quite complex. Look at how long it’s taking to replace people doing basic jobs with machines.
That's a junk ending. You try to replace anything with a machine. It's nontrivial. But then, to come full circle, it's a skilled labor job ;).
Yes, in a company of a million employees some are extra fast and make a show if it to get Youtube views. Watch people at McDonald's WITHOUT YouTube (scary, I know) and you'll see that it's just some dudes flipping burgers. Like anyone does on a weekend.
Yes, a monkey couldn't do it, but that's not the definition of skilled vs unskilled.
A chef is not skilled according to economics. However, "skill" as used in common literature and speech, still applies to these uncertified chefs.
By this uncommon and misinterpreted definition a master sword maker would also be unskilled. Which is not how common literature, speech, nor economics applies it.