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Feeding and housing everyone would be pretty good for everyone, except anyone looking to exploit someone π₯°
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Every dickhead MBA has learned about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, but they never apply it when looking at the poor. Concepts like positive externalities go right out the window.
"Conservatives" enjoy punishing people. This is not some flaw of the system, it's the system working as designed.
At a systemic level, itβs more about ensuring you have a large population of people with fewer rights so you can simultaneously exploit them easier and threaten the rest of the population with that fate.
They just sell it to conservatives who get off on the idea of righteous punishment.
It's also cheaper for the public. We pay EXTRA taxes to make sure they suffer. The cost of cops, prisons, hospitals, etc... for each homeless person far exceeds what it would cost to house them.
We pay EXTRA to keep them on the streets.
Well, aside from the crime being perpetrated by richwhitemen.
A reminder that wage theft accounts for more money stolen than all other robberies, burglaries and thefts combined.
And thatβs just the wage theft that is explicitly illegal, not the theft of the surplus value that you as a worker create, which is the true source of capitalist βprofit.β
I'm trying to increase crime!
Might I suggest stoking inflation? Or perhaps sneaking civilian clothed police into protests to torch shit? Ooh or trapping anyone acused of crime from getting a job so they can only do crime?
i think I'm just gonna label a load of commonplace activities as 'crimes' in stead. sounds easier. thanks for the tips though!
Yes, loitering, jaywalking and such sounds like good things to crime-ify
"But I don't want to feed and house the poor. I want to assault them, maim them, kill them and blame them for all of my awful behavior."
The day I quit shoplifting from walmart is the day they quit calling it shoplifting (I will never quit shoplifting from walmart)
There's a lot of people who are like "I don't want to pay for someone else!"
Those people should be scooped up and sent right to therapy. And maybe some basic social studies classes. And maybe a religious teacher if their faith instructs them to be kind and charitable to others.
Lots of people feel it's unfair to pay for other peoples expenses! I agree - we should stop funding billionares with tax money π
Punishment is profitable.
The cruelty is the point.
The US wants slaves though, and wouldn't you know it, slavery is illegal in the US except for those incarcerated π€.
But you cant make as much money through exploitation without prisons. Flooding the economy with newly housed middle class will create competition for the ultra rich, so why would they ever support it?
Free baby formula and diapers for all mothers till the avg of child based on demographics and location..