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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can you solve the equation?

Homelessness becomes illegal + For-profit prison system that's allowed by law to force prisoners to work + increasing cost of rent + lower relative price of labor =

spoilerSituation of dog eats dog, increasingly pauperized labor market where the poorest layer of the population gets enslaved, and the second poorest, and the third poorest, and the n-th poorest all will also fall one by one, because guess what? Free workers now have to compete in wages with prisoners.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

That's the plan, fascism, everyone but the elite works the camps

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

They're gonna learn the hard way there's no such thing as free work when the ~~workers~~ slaves burn their factorys down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

That's a refreshing thought, and I hope you're right.

If your labor is forced because you're incarcerated, you're absolutely justified in damaging your slavers any way you can. I'm not talking about work programs, unless they are "work programs" that you can be punished for not taking.

[–] Mango 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"karma will deal with it"

No, do something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hate karma dealers. I like action planners.

[–] Mango 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can make all kinds of plans that don't matter because nobody wants to do the work and deal with the fallout.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Find some mural aid groups.They desperately need positive leadership lately.

[–] Mango 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Independent action through culture is dramatically better than leadership IMO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah that's cool too. Herding ~~cats~~ anarchists in mural aid is more fun thou.