It is sometimes said that people who do work that is physically hard should be paid as much as people who do work that needs high-level qualifications. Do you agree or disagree?
The dignity of labour has been largely forgotten in the modern world. The gap between the wages earned for jobs involving hard work and the salary of positions requiring a piece of paper with letters on it has never been higher. I agree with the ideology of promoting fairness in pay scales between more physical and more mental ways of selling one’s labour. It will promote greater equality and reinvigorate an undervalued working class.
First of all, the craftsmanship and care required to perform much of what is deemed manual labour is being underestimated. The bus driver working 12 hours at a stretch behind the wheel, the railroad worker fixing worn train lines and the bricklayer building a wall that needs to last for decades, these workers have just as much impact, if not more, on people’s everyday wellbeing as does a nurse, who is only seen when one is sick. Their skills may not be so readily apparent, but their absence would be sorely felt. It is the working class that keeps modernity running smoothly and safely, and they deserve respect and a wage worthy of their role.
Another reason to reward hard, physical, difficult labour has to do with basic dignity and human rights. As the world develops, society evolves out of a history when often the most menial jobs were imposed on an underclass who had no other choice. The caste system of India is a prime example of this. Throughout the world, wage slavery meant the choice was to do what was offered or starve. In the more egalitarian world coming out of the Industrial revolution, due to labour unions and other factors, the employment market has changed. Garbage collectors, sewer workers and carpet layers can earn as much as with their hands as teachers, sales people or civil servants do with their minds. For those hard-earned rights of the working class to erode away would be a tremendous loss.
To summarize, physically demanding work often plays a vital role in today’s world and we should celebrate the dignity of labour.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, so, well, as to, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1686.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 345.0 315.596192385 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88695652174 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54630051109 2.80592935109 91% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 176.041082164 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.628985507246 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 507.6 506.74238477 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.8159458433 49.4020404114 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.375 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5625 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.125 7.06120827912 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224338613675 0.244688304435 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0593817716851 0.084324248473 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0385890482053 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121951380513 0.151304729494 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0389191362278 0.056905535591 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.4159519038 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.