• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    11 days ago

    It’s less about labour and more about isolating and capitalizing harmful assets. The politics of capitalism mandate that you squeeze value out the plebs, whether that be for money or political capital.

    Disenfranchising belligerent communities from their rights while creating surplus you can bleed from the state into the hands of your supporters is a simple win win scenario that’s been utilized in the US since before we even became a country.

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      11 days ago

      Its really not this organized nor well planned out?

      Don’t you think its more realistic that for profit prisons, by their legal requirement to maximize profits for shareholders mind you, priorities profits in a system where so called elections are fund raising campaigns…

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        11 days ago

        Private prisons are more of a symptom than a cause. I think only around 8% of the prison population are housed at private prisons.

        The main driver of America’s prison system really began in a response to the civil rights movement with “the war on drugs”.