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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 71 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

/s

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Homeless people should NOT exist in a world with trillionaires. Fuck the rich so hard.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Here’s a reminder that there are nearly 14,000,000 vacant houses in America, and less than 650,000 homeless people. The math comes out to ~22 vacant houses for every single homeless person. I’ll give you one guess which income bracket owns the vast majority of those vacant houses…

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ll give you one guess which income bracket owns the vast majority of those vacant houses…

it's poor people, right? right?

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Well duh, they're on the street because they're experiencing decision paralysis on what house to live in that day.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Phrase that differently or the wealthy will get the wrong idea.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

That wasn't what I...

You know what, that works too.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Alright, so let's kill 'em!

(Ambiguity is on purpose.)

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Totally agree. What the fuck is a society that just cares about money and not people. Its not worth surviving.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 4 points 2 weeks ago

The sad thing is that it has been like this for so damn long it isn't funny. And the people who like it this way will never go away.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 weeks 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 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago

I was lumping that into "revenue"

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 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

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

This isn't talked about enough. Also plays in to why the job market is shit, people are pissed about competing with immigrants making $12/ hr but not the literal slave labor thays like $2/ hr.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 29 points 2 weeks 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 20 points 2 weeks 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.

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[–] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 weeks ago

Meanwhile in AES states like the DPRK:

Homeless? Never heard of her

[–] Ava@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

no, we should arm the homeless

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

How else do we keep cops from fucking with them?

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago
[–] JamieDub86@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

This is how people start believing the free market makes it moral for poor people to just die instead

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Anarcho-capitalism, which is just capitalism unchained by any and all sort of regulation of a state. And I mean that literally. Slavery? Fair game. Children? Property of the parents and a commodity for the markets. Collective bargaining and workers rights? Unprofitable for the shareholders. Human rights? Only for corporations. Justice? Money makes right. Monopoly on violence? Belongs to the bagholder.

Long story short, it's just fascism for nerds.

also unfortunately has taken for itself the label of libertarianism in the american adjacent cultural sphere so people don't even know about niche left libertarian shit like market socialism or like that guy who did the Cincinnati Time Store, further solidifying capitalism as "the only system" that makes sense to them

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

An '-ism'. Specifically anarcho-capitalism.

[–] Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 5 points 2 weeks ago

I regret asking, but thank you for the clarification

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

You gotta feed those private prison shareholders!

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

It isn't even really about the privatization. They just want the ability to game the investment scam system.

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