• blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s “expensive” in the “right” way. The costs are paid by taxes, which are largely supplied by the 99%. The revenue, by contrast, is privatized, going to corporations owned by the 1%.

    So it’s only “expensive” for the masses, which lawmakers don’t care about.

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    It’s not that expensive if you use them as slave labor and ignore their human rights… Well, still expensive for the tax payers, but who cares for those peasants? /s

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      3 hours ago

      This isn’t talked about enough. Also plays in to why the job market is shit, people are pissed about competing with immigrants making $12/ hr but not the literal slave labor thays like $2/ hr.

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    It isn’t even really about the privatization. They just want the ability to game the investment scam system.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      Anarcho-capitalism, which is just capitalism unchained by any and all sort of regulation of a state. And I mean that literally. Slavery? Fair game. Children? Property of the parents and a commodity for the markets. Collective bargaining and workers rights? Unprofitable for the shareholders. Human rights? Only for corporations. Justice? Money makes right. Monopoly on violence? Belongs to the bagholder.

      Long story short, it’s just fascism for nerds.

      • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        also unfortunately has taken for itself the label of libertarianism in the american adjacent cultural sphere so people don’t even know about niche left libertarian shit like market socialism or like that guy who did the Cincinnati Time Store, further solidifying capitalism as “the only system” that makes sense to them

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      How about house them in a way that take away their voting rights and use them as cheap labor? Member how prisoners were used to fight the Palisades fires in January?

      Don’t forget the expensive housing is provided by a for-profit prison system. It’s expensive for taxpayers, but someone else is getting rich.

    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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      9 hours ago

      Providing housing and paying them a shit wage is slave labor too but you get the benefit of them paying their money back into the company store so it’s cheaper.