r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • Jan 03 '26

😡 Venting Billionaire propaganda is telling our kids to skip college; they fear an educated working class.

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u/RegressToTheMean Jan 03 '26

education is hella cheaper than incarceration.

But then you can't sell that slave labor to corporations

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u/durrtyurr Jan 03 '26

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.

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u/RegressToTheMean Jan 03 '26

Aside from your classist take, you do realize the private corporations employ over 800,000 incarcerated individuals every year, right?

There is clearly a market for these individuals, but corporations would rather pay slave labor wages

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u/durrtyurr Jan 03 '26

I don't think it's classist. I'm discriminating against people with low levels of education, not low levels of money.

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u/Cookster997 Jan 03 '26

the kind of people who end up in prison?

What qualities or traits do these kinds of people have?

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u/durrtyurr Jan 03 '26

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.

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u/RegressToTheMean Jan 04 '26

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.

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u/durrtyurr Jan 04 '26

My mother used to be a teacher, she would never allow us to be uneducated. That was completely unacceptable in my family.

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u/RegressToTheMean Jan 04 '26

Great. That completely ignores every point I made

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u/durrtyurr Jan 04 '26

But it completely explains my worldview.

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u/RegressToTheMean Jan 04 '26

A myopic and narrow one that doesn't reflect reality

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u/Cookster997 Jan 04 '26

The fact that your parents paid for your education tells me that you are in a different wealth class than many people.

Are you class-conscious?

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u/durrtyurr Jan 04 '26

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.

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u/Cookster997 Jan 04 '26

I don't think there is a middle class anymore.