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A Boring Dystopia

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Because the existing workforce keeps getting deported.

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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 137 points 5 days ago (13 children)

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

[–] Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 140 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago

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

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 68 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days 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.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

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

[–] mrbeano@lemm.ee 19 points 4 days ago

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

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days 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.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days 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.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days 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~

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

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

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 10 points 5 days 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?

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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

[–] ammonium@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

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

[–] coacoamelky@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago

Florida does not care about education

[–] Faith_Bubbles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 days 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

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Private prison corpos have to get them some too

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

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.

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.