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A Boring Dystopia

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Because the existing workforce keeps getting deported.

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Why the hell would you want children working overnight on school nights?

[–] [email protected] 140 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“Worst thing a fruit picker can learn is that they don’t have to be a fruit picker.” - Big Fruit

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

Even worse, that they’re the ones generating the money.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So they drop/fail out of school. An uneducated labor force is a cheap labor force.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

An Uneducated Labor Force also ensure those laborers can't compete for better positions, or demand better conditions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

However, they also result in the country slowly trending towards irrelevancy

In today's economies, everything is about high skill labour. It really is just cutting off your nose to spite your face.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Capitalism has no long-term goal. It's been literally making the planet inhabitable for humans since its birth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They'd rather be lords of the shit heap than citazens of anything better.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

And a fantastic, "ask no questions" kind of military force

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also they don't get taught critical thinking skills to understand why things are the way they are and easier to manipulate. That said my understanding of the general US education system is that it doesn't teach that (or much of it) anyways.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Easier to manipulate, yes.

The US education system isn’t monolithic. There are lots of good public education systems in the US. It wouldn’t be the tech and economic powerhouse it is today (was yesterday?) if it didn’t have generally good public education. Part of the reason some people think “the system” is bad is because their particular state/county/district/school is bad.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

That is irrelevant because they are also removing schooling for the children that will be taking those jobs.

~Supposed to be read somewhat /s but also not really /s because that is the plan~

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Imagine the kids get smart and start thinking on their own as adults. They would no longer vote Rep. Imagine that!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

It'll cause them to drop out and become permanent cheap labor that can be exploited due to not having a highschool diploma.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

They already thought of that. The department of education has already been dismantled. If there are no school nights there's no problem, right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not just children. Anyone who isn’t rich, white, cis, straight, and Christian. If you’re not rich, then you must be a piece of shit, and you deserve nothing, not even the most basic human dignity (according to the 0.01%)

Endnote 2: White Fascism

Endnote 3: The Origins of Conservatism

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Why the hell would you want children working overnight ~~on school nights~~? FTFY

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the fine for truancy can range from $250 to as much as $500
local truancy officers who have the authority to arrest habitually truant youths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truancy#United_States

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Private prison corpos have to get them some too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Florida does not care about education

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So that only the children of rich parents can get a good education.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Haven't you heard? The DOE is dead. No more pesky school to get in the way of these children's productive hours! Ah, utopia at last.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

These kids already have jobs, they dont even need school. The ones with rich parents will still learn how to fuck everyone else over in their private schools, dont worry.