its not about the wellbeing of our society, its about being in control. by force
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This just in: people will resort to any means necessary to eat. More at 10.
Remember kids, if you see someone shoplifting at the supermarket, no you didn't.
one of the biggest grocery chains in australia just made $2B last FY. They'll be fine.
Loss is calculated in anyhow. Unless they go out of their way there's no way to know what caused it - shoplifting, breakage, employees making themselves feel slightly better about their abysmal working conditions...
Most of the people who work there don't even care if you're shoplifting.
Except for that one overzealous middle-manager who will immediately get irate as if you had insulted them personally, as they demand you go back to the register so an underpiad cashier can embarrassingly ring up every item so they know exactly how much you stole, and finish by entering your face into a 3rd party database that will flag you every time you walk in any other store that also utilizes this database.
If poors stop doing crime and cops can't arrest the poors then who will give profit prisons free labor??
The prisons are not gonna fill themselves
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As a person whose home was recently burgled: I spoke with 4 different police officers/detectives in the investigation. I agree that what we need is a less desperate society, not more policing.
Let me guess... They're investigating but have no interest in doing actual police work once the case is filed.
Bad cop, no doughnut.
The first two responded to the initial call, the second two were from the forensic ID team, checking for prints and seeing if there was anything likely to give a good DNA signal. I don't know what else I could expect from them. I know they worked with the power company to figure out what time my power was cut, and went to my neighbours to see if they had any video from that time.
Can I ask what they took? It's none of my business, but I guess I'm morbidly curious about what they were desperate to have, and why burglary was a better option than, say, shoplifting or something
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Source?
This just confirms my preexisting biases a little too much.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038012125000229 maybe something like this for the homelessness part
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Cops are mainly to suppress anybody who doesn't go along with the will of the powerful.
They don't exist to reduce harm to the many, they exist to protect the assets of the Owner class, which is why in Law property "crime" is usually more severely punished than anything but murder and why cops are vastly more speedy at investigating and prosecuting "crimes" committed against the Owner class or their Assets than they are when it's the riff-raff that suffers.
They're minions to a handful of people, not servants of the public.
Homeless people cost tax payers between 30-50 thousand dollars a year. Housing the homeless is likely fiscally conservative.
This means the incentive structure in our society is wrong. People who lack the creativity to solve novel problems resort to psychopathy to to be productive in the economy. Military industrial complex, private prisons, judge judy.
Related: it's been long known that giving unemployed people money is good for the economy.
"I'm a supporting member of society because I work 40h/week, and you aren't" simply isn't true.
I don't have the scientific paper to support this but I've known it since the 1990s.
Economists know it too. It doesn't even have anything to do with "socialism".
No no no, that's socialism! Which people have learned is bad... Because, empathy is toxic!
System bad
Yeah but that doesn't serve the prison industrial slavery complex
They know. But it's better for them for crime to be up and police to be fat, so they can run on being hard on crime, and police works for the rich instead of the people.
Prison labor is essentially legalized slavery so there is incentive to keep poor people incarcerated. There's a reason why the US is the most incarcerated nation in the world.
i think the situation wouldn't be as bad if there weren't also for-profit prisons that have an additional incentive to exploit people who are incarcerated. all prisons should be nonprofit. (what a weird thing to say out loud)
AgE oF sCIence aND prOgREss
Ahh but you see, blaming the poor for all the problems is great they can't effectively fight back and if they do, it's super easy to fearmonger about the riots of 'those people'
Gotta keep em separated...
the people are kept poor so that they can push more people towards the military, it's a known scheme. the fed gov fundamentally doesn't care about people's wellbeing; how would it? it's never held accountable by the people. it's too far away, too abstract, too difficult to walk there with pitchforks and torches ...
Sane people do stuff for a reason. Remove the reason, remove the action they would take.
Like for example remove pay and any sane person will stop working.
Basic needs, I.E food, water, shelter, and healthcare should be seen as rights, but past that is wants, and people will work for what they want.
In our current system we provide all of those needs, and fund it with by taxes for the people in prison, but not the innocent and poor.
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Yeah, well, science also says Twitter is an information black hole, and few that need to see this will see it.
I know it’s microblog memes, but still. It’s surprising to me how much scientist believers post about the state of the world… on Twitter. It’d be like going into a Nazi bar in Berlin to warn about the Holocaust, or to criticize Catholicism in the Vatican, and thinking you’re somehow in an open forum.
…At least it isn’t a blue checkmart Tweeter, though.
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