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Some losses are worth the principle (July 28, 1915) (midwest.social)

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[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine your only punishment for that being $50

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 72 points 2 months ago (1 children)

$50 in 1913 - the farthest back I can go with the BLS CPI calculator - would be about $1,600 today.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Cheaper than a hospital bill for being shot/strangled or jail time!

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think Everett is indestructible. He probably can't be restrained for long either, not even by iron bars.

[–] Fester@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

He’s the original Hulk. Doesn’t need to transform though - just gets mad.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Either that or he's naturally a skinny little guy but he's always angry.

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

Righteously so.

[–] Rubisco 1 points 2 months ago

[+] mozz@mbin.grits.dev -6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And a felony on your record for the rest of your life

Do you like landscaping, auto body, and working in a kitchen? You do now, hope you turn out to be good at it.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or president, maybe

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You need 34 convictions, and two impeachments for that though.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

And they gotta be for a proper respectable crime like bribing a porn star

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Those jobs should be just as well compensated as any other, if not more because manual labor, the average person can't fix their own car, and you put it directly into your body.

Fuck the Right and fuck the rich. Pay people well, their time is their time and it's not owed to you. And fuck the police.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I wasn't trying to say anything against people who do those jobs or that they shouldn't be paid. I was saying that having a felony will severely constrain your options going forward in life changing fashion.

That outcome, and also the mistreatment financial and otherwise of the people doing those jobs, are two things we gotta fix.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this an American thing? I (French) have never been asked for my police record when applying for a non-government job. Employers don't check for this.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In America it is almost a universal practice. If you have a criminal record, you might or might not have problems; if you have a felony, you’re fucked for almost every job.

If you want to learn a depressing amount about it, I have heard that the book “The New Jim Crow” makes a pretty compelling argument that the systems of criminal conviction, credit, educational qualifications, rent, bank loans, probation and parole, and what-have-you, have functionally brought back a good amount of the machinery of segregation into the modern era, because it creates effectively a two-tier system with most people who started out poor and a huge majority of minorities stuck into the second system.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Fair, but Everett owns his own business, so he’ll probably be fine.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I believe you, my comment is just saying that the system is fucked at the punitive way society acts after time served and a lack of rehabilitation while serving time does nothing for the person incarcerated, those harmed by the initial crime, and definitely not society as a whole. The only people who benefit are for profit prisons and the judges getting kickbacks from sentencing.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

His point is that relatively few employers are willing to hire felons.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Oh, I know what his point is. But time served should remedy all of those things moot. But we don't have a rehabilitative system or one that cares otherwise. The whole system is beyond unfair to those who need the most care. And that statement applies to so much more than just felony convictions.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 43 points 2 months ago

Anything punishable by a fine is legal for the rich. If only they used that power this way in real life

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 months ago

Too bad the fine nowadays is an impromptu execution

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 months ago

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

He fuckin did it 😲