"Nobody respects a cashier at McDonalds" ---

I think THIS is the point: If we bring back (or better: establish) the mindset in the public, that any form of legal employment has its intrinsic honor ("I can life with the fruit of my own hands work", "workers pride" and so on) then i think the motivation for crime could go down...

McDonald’s very deliberately structured its workforce to be lower-skill and replaceable, even though it would be less expensive for them to hire skilled employees like short-order cooks. They did this very deliberately in order to make the company more resistant to labor organization efforts. When people say that McDonald’s jobs are low-status and replaceable, they’re reflecting the correct perception that these jobs were engineered to be low-status and replaceable. No amount of admonishing people is going to make humans admire a profession (the profession, not the people) that was designed this way.

IOW, they went out of their way to create more jobs than they otherwise would. Job deskilling is good for the most marginalized workers, even when those with valuable skills would oppose it.

Correct.

>Stupid has to hurt bad, and that just isn't palatable to polite society.

What does this actually mean from your POV?

Or maybe - just maybe! - behaving decently has to offer some level of comfort, safety, and status. Instead the folks who try to work face poverty wages, violence, and degrading work conditions.

Instead of trying to make people's lives even more miserable ("stupid has to hurt bad"), let's give them a path to a decent existence.

> Or maybe - just maybe! - behaving decently has to offer some level of comfort, safety, and status. Instead the folks who try to work face poverty wages, violence, and degrading work conditions.

Maybe.

> Instead of trying to make people's lives even more miserable ("stupid has to hurt bad"), let's give them a path to a decent existence.

When they have a decent existence some of them will start to think. And this shall not happen /s

"The masses could only become dangerous if the advance of industrial technique made it necessary to educate them more highly: but, since military and commercial rivalries are no longer of primary importance, the level of popular education is actually declining."

"The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of global society intact."

George Orwell - 1984

gg

Legalize drugs so they are cheap and easily available, and then people will fuck you because they like you, not because you have the expensive drugs they want.

Actually, if you just legalize all the victimless crimes, making a living as a criminal is going to be a lot harder than just getting a job.

What if the gov gave anonymous "evacuation loans"? The target audience is teens in crime ridden neighborhoods that want to escape, but have no means to do so, and even if they tried, the immense peer pressure wouldnt let them. The loan would allow such teens to relocate anywhere in the US, with all expenses, including tution, paid. Upon graduating the loan would be forgiven. I admit, this idea may be a fantasy.

Edit. Your comment being downvoted confirms that the politically correct left doesn't want to listen.

What do you think someone in extreme poverty would want to throw away their local family and support network, in exchange for being an outcast somewhere else? Are you going to pay them $100K/yt until they build a new life?

> throw away their local family and support network

Why do you label this as "throwing away their local family", but you wouldn't label the millions of regular students studying overseas or interstate in the same way?