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Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime

posted by n1 on Friday July 29 2016, @04:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the opportunists dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The crime rate, especially drug crime, decreases significantly when more 16-44 year olds have access to affordable Vocational Education and Training, (VET) according to a new University of Melbourne report.

Drug crime rate decreased 13 per cent when more people had access to a publicly-funded place in VET. The research also recorded a five percent and 11 per cent decrease in personal and property crime respectively, including assault, theft and burglary.

Report author, Dr Cain Polidano from the Melbourne Institute found that the extra public funding of VET (TAFE and private colleges) reduced the costs of crime.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @11:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @11:08AM (#381486)

    The proposed Switzerland basic income was over $2,500 a month per adult. Even accounting for higher cost of living, that is massive.

    Many in the US can live comfortably on $800-1k a month and never work again. For extra money to spend on luxuries, committing opportunistic crimes once in a while such as mugging Pokemon Gotards is far easier than holding a job. If your crimes catch up to you, all your basic needs including health care are met in prison.

    You can also afford to be your own pimp and sell sex services with relative safety. To be fair, that can be called a job, but you don't even have to leave your government paid-for rented home or get off the bed to be a camwhore. Finally, the best manipulators will get clients to pay to watch them eat, or pay for the thrill of being financially dominated. That's right, there are men who pay "fin doms" to take their money and get almost nothing in return except maybe verbal abuse.

    The future is universal basic income, total unemployment, VR games, and absolute surveillance. Not so bad right?