cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40889881

  1. Capitalism creates generational poverty.

  2. Generational poverty breeds desperation.

  3. Desperation leads to self-destructive behaviors, broken families, fractured communities, isolation, crime, child abuse, etc.

  4. Capitalism creates prisons, nonprofit industrial complex, big pharm, etc. to profit from the desperation.

It’s a never-ending cycle.

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    68·
    2 days ago

    One reason for this may be the fact that prisons in the US are run as a business, with private companies earning billions and therefore having an interest in ensuring that there are as many inmates as possible.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    491·
    2 days ago

    “Capitalism breeds innovation!!”

    The innovation:

    1. Capitalism creates prisons, nonprofit industrial complex, big pharm etc to profit from the desperation (and captures governments to ensure focus is placed on increasing the profitability of these ventures)
  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    1 day ago

    I’ve heard someone say Shit Life Syndrome is mainly hereditary but also highly contagious, spreading easily through neighborhoods. It’s not always terminal but it is quite malignant and very hard to cure.

  • kurikai@lemmy.world
    29·
    2 days ago

    cheaper to keep them out of prison. but nope, big companies cant get thier payout from the government then

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      He didn’t say he was a good or intellectual teacher… but like the bottom of the graduating class, they got there eventually

  • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    We still have debtors prisons

    Not in the United States. Here, it’s just called “prison”. And you certainly don’t have to break the law to end up there for life.

    And come, certainly, nobody who has been sentenced to death could ever possibly deserve it. Because murder isn’t justice.