They literally think they should be compensated for their feelings.
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Eh, there for sure are things such as 'mental labour'. Imagine being the only person in a relationship who worries about the bills being paid on time, who invests, saves, etc, etc.
The responsible one is going to be way more stressed than the one who doesn't have to worry about those things because the other person has it covered.
It really isn't any type of manual labour, but things like that take a toll.
Anyone who's been in a relationship where they fix all the problems and handle all the responsibilities knows the feeling.
Or being 'on' all the time at work compared to being able to relax and be yourself at home. That's essentially emotional labour. Shits pretty tiring.
I'd say the lazier people are the ones who don't do the mental labour or emotional labour. They're also the ones who don't go far in any type of corporate hierarchy.
It's called stress.
Lefties assigned new, bigger words to it to rationalize their inability to deal with it.
"I'm not stressed, I'm undergoing emotional labour, and that takes a toll! Thus, I deserve credit as well as a break from things like paying my bills on time. It's not my fault I can't get myself out of bed so that I can consistently make it to work on time and hold down a job, it's societies fault for stressing me out so much, so it only makes sense that the government provides for me because if I wasn't so stressed I would be able to do those things!!!111111"
-retards
I don't disagree, but it really isn't those types of stress. It's the job related from dealing with customers, and doing it properly. You know how many times I've wanted to tell a customer that they're fucking retarded?
Probably once a week. It's similar to emotional IQ. Another buzzwordy thing to explain 'good at reading people'.
Someone who is good at emotional labour is good at taking a whole lot of shit, compartmentalizing it, and still treating that customer well and getting the job done. Pretty much a descriptor of anyone who's good at managing hard to manage people.
I don't know who expects to get paid for shit outside of an actual job, but yeah, that's just called living life.