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Chipotle Will Offer Free College Tuition to All Employees

23 points by kposehn 7y ago

xingped 7y ago
While this may seem like a Good Thing, I believe this is ultimately Not A Good Thing. Similar to how medical insurance is tied to employment, instead of having a universal system that benefits everyone, it instead lashes employees to their jobs even more firmly and makes you even more screwed if you get fired or have to leave a job, allowing employers to take advantage of you more easily. In the long run this is a very, very bad thing.
- Ancalagon 7y ago
  Good forward thinking, and I agree. If enough companies do this, it will only reinforce the rising tuition rates caused by the government's carte blanche loan-giving.
nickthemagicman 7y ago
Feels kind of creepy, how everything is tied to employment. Health Care, Tuition, Paying Rent, etc.
- alexfromapex 7y ago
  Home ownership, car ownership...Being unemployed gives you this weird feeling of being an outsider in this social construction that our very survival seems to hinge upon. The feeling is strange when you’re home and all the workers have gone to work for the day because they basically have to. It feels like servitude more than working to better yourself.
- leetcrew 7y ago
  it feels "creepy" that you have to do something other people find useful to take advantage of the stuff others have built?
  - Konnstann 7y ago
    If I want to go do something else other people find useful, maybe even more useful, I can't, because of lapses in tuition payments, health insurance, etc. Contrast that to either a system where the government takes care of that, and I can work for whoever I want, or a system where tuition and healthcare are affordable enough where I can pay for it myself and again, can work wherever I want. There are potential good outcomes from such programs, but similar to H1B, something with clear upsides will be used as leverage against the lower-end of people who would benefit AKA the people who need these benefits the most.
  - nickthemagicman 7y ago
    Not so much in the way that your services are being useful. But in the way that you serve or die.

23 points by kposehn 7y ago

While this may seem like a Good Thing, I believe this is ultimately Not A Good Thing. Similar to how medical insurance is tied to employment, instead of having a universal system that benefits everyone, it instead lashes employees to their jobs even more firmly and makes you even more screwed if you get fired or have to leave a job, allowing employers to take advantage of you more easily. In the long run this is a very, very bad thing.

Ancalagon 7y ago
Good forward thinking, and I agree. If enough companies do this, it will only reinforce the rising tuition rates caused by the government's carte blanche loan-giving.

nickthemagicman 7y ago

Feels kind of creepy, how everything is tied to employment. Health Care, Tuition, Paying Rent, etc.

alexfromapex 7y ago
Home ownership, car ownership...Being unemployed gives you this weird feeling of being an outsider in this social construction that our very survival seems to hinge upon. The feeling is strange when you’re home and all the workers have gone to work for the day because they basically have to. It feels like servitude more than working to better yourself.
leetcrew 7y ago
it feels "creepy" that you have to do something other people find useful to take advantage of the stuff others have built?
- Konnstann 7y ago
  If I want to go do something else other people find useful, maybe even more useful, I can't, because of lapses in tuition payments, health insurance, etc. Contrast that to either a system where the government takes care of that, and I can work for whoever I want, or a system where tuition and healthcare are affordable enough where I can pay for it myself and again, can work wherever I want. There are potential good outcomes from such programs, but similar to H1B, something with clear upsides will be used as leverage against the lower-end of people who would benefit AKA the people who need these benefits the most.
- nickthemagicman 7y ago
  Not so much in the way that your services are being useful. But in the way that you serve or die.