It's unfortunate, but predictable. Picture yourself as the manager of a CVS. You're looking to hire three new clerks. Are you going to hire someone with a clean record or someone who's spent time behind bars for a drug offense, or for theft?

Or say you're the manager of a restaurant. The guy who comes in looks like he needs a job badly, and seems to have cleaned up his life. But he was behind bars for sexual assault. Will you be comfortable putting that guy into the mix with the rest of your help? Or is that a chance you'd rather not take?

Or say you run a plumbing business. You need to hire someone who knows the trade, and can do the job. But you also need someone who you can trust to drive to the job site on their own with your materials and hold up the good reputation of your business. The applicant has been behind bars 3 times for OUI. Do you hire them?

I'm sure there are many who have served their time who would be perfectly safe to hire. But I can understand the businesses in question shying away from such applications, especially with a prior record of any violent crimes or theft. And in our overly-litigious age, it's not even JUST about your other employees, but if god forbid the person abuses your trust and commits other crimes, well, lawyers don't sue poor people. They're going to come after YOU the business owner, even if you had NOTHING to do with it but choosing to give the guy a job. Because you have the money.

In a democratic socialist society EVERYONE - and I mean EVERYONE- will have a right to a job. PRIVATE PROFIT interests will no longer be a concern in employing the masses for USEFUL work .
The economy of capitalism DEFINES a JOB as work which makes money for the investor. The notion that something just needs to be done is brainlessly ignored. For example , in winter blizzard -rather than HELP - healthy young men stay inside and look out the windows waiting for THE CITY to clear the roads. A business will clear out its parking lot but ignore the sidewalks forcing helpless pedestrians into the dangerous street.
Providence ,Rhode Island is a filthy city and many beaches in the state are blighted with all kinds of litter. But whose JOB is it to clean these once pristine and beautiful beaches up ? Not even ex-cons or state prisoners .

Color me skeptical. You may be right; and you're not wrong about some of the perverse incentives of capitalism. But money has made the world go round for literally thousands of years. Pretty much since coins were first minted and mankind moved from a barter-based economy to more specialized fields.

I mean, I'd love a kind of Star Trek future where we move beyond money, and mankind focuses on science, exploration, atheletics and the arts, just because those are things we find fulfillment and meaning in.

I also don't see us getting there without several wars and false starts and major planet-wide natural disasters.