National Retirement Plan: Prison Industrial Complex
this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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Being Heartless is the de-facto standard in capitalism.
Why not gas her? It worked for the nazis.
And waste good gas? Just throw her alive into the mass grave, and stack bodies on top like ~~we~~ they did in Bosnia.
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Wealthiest country on earth
🤣 It's like putting one leg in boiling hot water, the other one in liquid nitrogen and calling it room temperature.
The US is a third world country with some very rich people.
I know this is a socialist sublemmy, so “preaching to the choir”, but seriously let’s please abolish rent. I think folks are ready. Rent is basically what created capitalism, right?
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Kinda sounds like a win-win for her when you think about it. The state isn't gonna stick her in high security prison, more like minimum security, so it's basically just a retirement home but this time she doesn't have to pay rent, and under the 8th amendment, prisons in the US are required to provide medical care to inmates (it's not always the best care, but they do get it), which isn't actually the case with poorly funded or greedy retirement homes.
There comes a point when you're old enough that going to prison is actually a better alternative to retirement homes, because a retirement home will actually take your assets so you have no wealth to pass down to your kids, but a prison doesn't do that. if you go into prison as an elderly person, your house is still yours, your bank accounts are still yours, you just can't access them while you're in prison.
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You assume they have hearts.
I believe her story is a bit more nuanced. She took the money she received and spent it on her self and never gave it to the facility. She actively did this because she thought she would be dead soon.
And doesn't that just expose the underlying immorality even more? The elderly are told to spend down extra money. It's common sense. You can't take it with you. Plan as best you can, right?
Any housing provider or retirement center that can't reasonably deal with the fact that some of their oldest residents might unexpectedly run out of cash, well, I have zero respect for them. Don't open that kind of business if you aren't ready for this kind of entirely predictable scenario. It's just wrong.
Even so, this shouldn't happen. Several persons did some really evil shit here.
I did a dick move because she was also behaving like a dick.
Really? That excuse didn't work in Kindergarden and sure as shit doesn't hold up in the grown up world.
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This is why it's better to die and become a ghost and haunt a place.
Who needs to be 93? Especially in THIS timeline.
Expect a lot more of this with the BBB bill cutting 800billion from medicade. Most seniors 62% in these homes are paid for by Medicaid after all of their assets have been liquidated. These places cost 10k a month or more.
You USAians are half a step away of just shooting her.