Next up- making all prison labor protections optional.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2024
4 points (100.0% liked)
US Authoritarianism
789 readers
785 users here now
Hello, I am researching American crimes against humanity. . This space so far has been most strongly for memes, and that's fine.
There's other groups and you are welcome to add to them. USAuthoritarianism Linktree
See Also, my website. USAuthoritarianism.com be advised at time of writing it is basically just a donate link
Cool People: !thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world
founded 8 months ago
MODERATORS
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 =
spoiler
Situation 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.
They're gonna learn the hard way there's no such thing as free work when the ~~workers~~ slaves burn their factorys down.
"karma will deal with it"
No, do something.
I hate karma dealers. I like action planners.
I can make all kinds of plans that don't matter because nobody wants to do the work and deal with the fallout.
Find some mural aid groups.They desperately need positive leadership lately.
That's the plan, fascism, everyone but the elite works the camps
What the actual fuck.
No it doesn’t work like that.
Sleeping outside while homeless I am sure isn’t a deliberate choice. Homeless people aren’t magic. They can’t conjure a building to sleep in from thin air. Making it illegal doesn’t give tgem magic building making powers or like teleportation or whatever these delusional idiots think it does.
Poverty is illegal. We are all poor.
We should make our rich and powerful worried about communism again.
So whats the punishment a fine? Prison time where u use tax payer money to give them a bed and food?
The purpose is to push people into the for-profit prison system, which rakes in billions in slave labor.
Can you please provide a source for this
Not ideal solution, but I'm so happy that something is being done. I think people who don't live in West Coast realize how much homeless people victimize working poor. That's me and my family. Rich people don't care that my wife can't take the Max to work for fear of being attacked. They'll just drive wherever they need to. My city just posted allowed camping map and guess what? It's all around apartments because it's close to transit. I've voted Democrats since I lived in this country, but they have been in charge of Oregon for ages and solved nothing.
something is being done
What's being done here exactly? I don't see how this does anything except increase the prison population, or move the problem to a new location.
Neither of those seems like a solution. But I'm also maybe missing something?
I am a person who is victimized by homeless. If I had an instrument that gives every homeless a home, I'd use it, but I don't have one. It's not my job to create one either. It's the government's job. Now I'm given another instrument that allows me to move the problem somewhere else. I don't care where it moves - it's not my job to setup this system. I can only choose between my family's safety vs some rando safety. I will ALWAYS choose the former. It's not cruelty on my part - it's just logic. People making these pro-homeless comments fall into 2 categories : 1. Not personally affected because they don't live here or are rich 2. Have high tolerance of danger like those people climbing mountain without rope. I'm not one of those people so any instrument to deal with my immediate problem is welcomed.