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Meh. I make 70-100k in a year with a 2-year community college education. My job’s plenty hard.
Totally agree!!
Try doing "in home care"...pay sucks, it's hard, you get close to your clients(can't call them patients if you don't have a degree) and then they die. 😔
Hardest low paying job ever. >

Idk why you got downvoted, home care and aged care is so difficult >

Cause people suck, mostly. >

Not unpopular. It’s obvious. If you want an easier life, you get a degree. Might have to grind a few years but it’s worth it. My current software development job is easier than anything I’ve had in the past and it pays double at minimum. >

I don't think they mean the work is easy, they likely mean it's easy to learn how to do it >

People struggle with the term "easier" and think it's meant negatively.
Like you said "easier" in this context is meant to show that it requires standard training of which most should be common sense but just showing their procedure. >

They aren’t easier OP, but they’re easier to get
Nobody is saying that being a janitor is harder/easier than being a teacher, but one of those professions requires years of college and etc >

Define easy and hard?
The reason these jobs are low paying is you can easily replace workers. A large portion of this replaceability is that a poorly educated, unskilled person can be trained to do the job in a matter of hours. The higher paying the job the harder it is to replace the workers. >

I mean I have a well paying job that’s easy that you could easily replace me with. >

Well there's also the factor of how many capable people are willing to do the job, and how useful the job actually is. >

It's definitely not easy. I've worked both sides of the map here and my fast food manager job was far more intense than my design job.
That being said, I think the problem is that your job is easily replaceable. You exert more physical effort during the job, but you didn't exhaust as much to achieve the position you have (be that through study, education, training, etc).
I think the thought of easier comes from the reality that it's easier to get and be replaced; not that it's easier to do >

Is it? None sense. The lower pay the harder the job. High payed jobs require high investment in advance and not everyone can afford that, so demand is high.