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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 71 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The cruelty is part of the fun! Plus prison = free slave labor!

/s

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 26 points 9 months ago

Providing housing and paying them a shit wage is slave labor too but you get the benefit of them paying their money back into the company store so it's cheaper.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 60 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Obviously, the solution is US slavery

US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year for pittance

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 29 points 9 months ago

One of the most obvious illustrations how capitalism socialise costs and privatises profits.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 36 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's "expensive" in the "right" way. The costs are paid by taxes, which are largely supplied by the 99%. The revenue, by contrast, is privatized, going to corporations owned by the 1%.

So it's only "expensive" for the masses, which lawmakers don't care about.

[–] Flickerby@lemmy.zip 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not to mention the slave labor they gain out of it.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago

I was lumping that into "revenue"

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

👆 👆 These two guys/girls/dudes/men/women get it.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

Just another way to extract surplus created by the 99%.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How about house them in a way that take away their voting rights and use them as cheap labor? Member how prisoners were used to fight the Palisades fires in January?

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

How about house them in a way that take away their voting rights and use them as cheap labor? Member how prisoners were used to fight the Palisades fires in January?

Don't forget the expensive housing is provided by a for-profit prison system. It's expensive for taxpayers, but someone else is getting rich.

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's not that expensive if you use them as slave labor and ignore their human rights... Well, still expensive for the tax payers, but who cares for those peasants? /s

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

How about organs? I'm about done with this liver and I could use a bigger penis.

[–] Ava@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 9 months ago

Well, there WAS that thing a couple of months ago where Kilmeade said the quiet part out loud, suggesting we should execute them.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Truth. The cheapest option is housing and mental health care.

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's an investment by the megacorps (with gov monies) into keeping the plebs in check, to not get any ideas around equity, social reform, tax increases, megacorp regulation (consumer prices/margins cap), higher wages, etc.

It's super effective.

The same infrastructure can also be recycled in event of a full-on fascist gov.

[–] seejur@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Not only that. The housing is then maintained by taxpayers, who are not the rich strata. So it's another way to funnel money from the poor/middle class to the corporation owned by the rich.

[–] JamieDub86@piefed.social 8 points 9 months ago

....and do absolutely fuck all to make the world a better place.

[–] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

Meanwhile in AES states like the DPRK:

Homeless? Never heard of her

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

We? How about "we" remove the rich, so that homelessness is only a frie and true choice if you want to be traveling?

The only people who'd like there to be homeless people are the rich and powerful.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If these people were at all reasonable or giving a shit about anybody else, they wouldn't be ayncaps.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago
[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

You gotta feed those private prison shareholders!

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago
[–] Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm unfamiliar with this bal—Is it a country or an ism?

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

An '-ism'. Specifically anarcho-capitalism.

[–] Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 5 points 9 months ago

I regret asking, but thank you for the clarification

[–] boogiebored@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

Move them into "Sanctuary Districts".

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