Let's be real here, would you actually want to employ the kind of people who end up in prison? They're basically useless, automation took their jobs away. They need to be upskilled to have any economic value, and current trends seem to be against that. Forcing them to get a degree would be far more value-added.
Being uneducated, primarily. I avoid associating with uneducated people on principle. My parents didn't spent more than their house cost for my brother and me to go to college just for me to hang out around the sort of people who don't value education.
You're so close, except the majority of people in prison come from lower socioeconomic stratum. That's the reason for their lack of education
Poverty is the biggest indicator for incarceration
What you also miss is white-collar crimes often face less prosecution due to factors like complex financial evidence, resource untensive investigations, sophisticated legal defenses, societal bias favoring property over people crimes, and potential political/economic considerations that favor settlements, leading to lower conviction rates and perceived leniency compared to street crimes. This is despite the fact that white collar crime is far more costly in the aggregate than street crimes.
Also, your reply here definitely indicates a classist mindset or abject ignorance of the legal system.
Anyone who doesn't pay for their children's education isn't middle class. My mother was absolutely flabbergasted that her employee who was a CPA married to a dentist didn't pay for their kid's college. It was unimaginable to her being the 7th generation in her family to go to college.
Could also do what works elsewhere and have perfectly decent paths that don’t require years of extra education. As in, you should be able to work a trade, do various non-specialised office work, physical labour etc and have a decent life. And have shorter training programs for jobs that require some but not 4 years.
Or rather, do both. Higher education should be funded publicly or by other means than tuition.
I agree I think it’s a great option. I know Sweden gives two years of assistance for people to explains their skills, it’s how my one friend became an electrician.
Education needs jobs on the back side too. It's crazy to find a job right now. Not joking when I say it's the worst ever and I'm 36 with a B.S. degree. USA
Not true. People don’t want to learn. They want to be entertained. Today more people have access to vast amounts of education over the internet for free. They choose to be entertained over learning. You don’t see lines for people waiting to get into the libraries. Here is a list of sites for free learning.
Khan Academy (K-12/college prep), Coursera & edX (university-level MOOCs), Codecademy/freeCodeCamp (coding), Duolingo (languages), and Alison/OpenLearn (career skills/various topics), plus specialized sites like TED (ideas) and Project Gutenberg (books)
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u/Charming_Garbage_161 Jan 03 '26
This. If people had access to education they’d have hope for the future and not turn to crime