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Did I say mandatory? I meant optional! You're "free" to die in a cardboard box under a freeway as a market capitalist scarecrow warning to the other ants so they keep showing up to make us more!

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[–] Rakudjo@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You're "free" to die in a cardboard box under a freeway

Actually... They made that illegal. You're free to rot in prison for being homeless, though!

[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it's one homeless guy dieing under the bridge it's a capitalist scarecrow sothat other people work harder.

If it's a hundred homeless guys dieing under bridges the people understand that the problem is not them, but capitalism. That's illegal.

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Capitalist Scarecrow is such an effective term. It feels like enshittification in the way that I see it everywhere, and now I finally have a word for it.

edit: wording

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sitting here, watching every town council around my area pass a homeless ban after that SCOTUS ruling. Even the newspaper suddenly switched and said popular opinion swung 180 degrees in the last six months.

What the fuck does one do at that point? It's obviously manufactured consent. It's blatantly unconstitutional to tell people they can't exist on public land. It's a human rights violation to be stuffed into a shelter that demands you be a better human than people who already have housing in order to get house money. At this point we're just turning the homeless into the new scary minority.

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The goal is extermination and genocide. There is nowhere for the homeless to go except into the ground as dead bones, where they won't bother the privileged and rich anymore.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't know if we're there, but that's definitely one way Automation has been theorized to go.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Three hots and a cot is better than nothing…

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well then there's the forced labor.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, unfortunately.