• SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    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 =

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    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.

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      7 days ago

      They’re gonna learn the hard way there’s no such thing as free work when the workers slaves burn their factorys down.

          • Mango@lemmy.world
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            7 days ago

            I can make all kinds of plans that don’t matter because nobody wants to do the work and deal with the fallout.

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              7 days ago

              Find some mural aid groups.They desperately need positive leadership lately.

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                  6 days ago

                  Yeah that’s cool too. Herding cats anarchists in mural aid is more fun thou.

      • GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 days ago

        That’s a refreshing thought, and I hope you’re right.

        If your labor is forced because you’re incarcerated, you’re absolutely justified in damaging your slavers any way you can. I’m not talking about work programs, unless they are “work programs” that you can be punished for not taking.