So they drop/fail out of school. An uneducated labor force is a cheap labor force.
Comment on FL wants more child labor
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why the hell would you want children working overnight on school nights?
athairmor@lemmy.world 1 month ago
singletona@lemmy.world 1 month ago
An Uneducated Labor Force also ensure those laborers can’t compete for better positions, or demand better conditions.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
Capitalism has no long-term goal. It’s been literally making the planet inhabitable for since its birth.
singletona@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’d rather be lords of the shit heap than citazens of anything better.
mrbeano@lemm.ee 1 month ago
And a fantastic, “ask no questions” kind of military force
orbitz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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 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.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 month 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 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.
Fermion@feddit.nl 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?
floo@retrolemmy.com 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.
ammonium@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why the hell would you want children working overnight
on school nights? FTFYcoacoamelky@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Florida does not care about education
Faith_Bubbles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
the fine for truancy can range from $250 to as much as $500
local truancy officers who have the authority to arrest habitually truant youthscrusa187@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Private prison corpos have to get them some too
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So that only the children of rich patterns can get a good education.
Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 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.
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 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.
Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
“Worst thing a fruit picker can learn is that they don’t have to be a fruit picker.” - Big Fruit
Arbiter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Even worse, that they’re the ones generating the money.