This guy is complaining about this while living in LA?
Isn’t prison slavery already legal in the USA??
Isn’t prison slavery already legal in the USA??
it is that (the thirteenth amendment carves out an exception specifically for prison labour), and it’s literally the operational model for a significant fraction of US prisons aiui
Not sure that any time someone posts cringe on HN counts as a tech take. Maybe we can bring AI into this?
What about, enslaving prisoners is not controversial if an AI is giving the orders, since it’s not a person oppressing another person. I’ll take my 500M VC now please.
Same guy earlier upthread
Public transit fares are generally malformed. I personally never pay the LA Metro fare. Why? Because I pay the Metrolink fare, which by their own admission covers same-day Metro transit. But police will actively seek me out as a person who looks like they have money and give me a hard time for not “tapping”, all while folks who very clearly have no money waltz on into the metro, stopping only to smoke crack on the elevator up. There’s a general problem in this country of what to do with law breakers who do not have money. It seems like the answer is to make them work and garnish their wages, but for whatever reason we are against that.
Yea the police are always giving such a hard time to people who don’t look poor. It’s so unfair that someone who can and does apparently pay for public transit has to prove they did.
“poor people have had it too good for too long and slavery is the only answer. I consider myself a pragmatic centrist”
“I have a legitimate Metrolink fare and should not be hassled when I don’t tap. These other people who don’t look like me obviously do not have the Metrolink fare and should be hassled when they don’t tap.”
Least controversial libertarian. (At least they picked slavery and not … well you know).
No, the concern with slavery is the lack of agency for oneself at the behest of another. A slave has no say in how their body is used and it’s a violation of the human rights to be your own person. Whether or not they are guilty of a crime is irrelevant.
Punishment for a crime does not mean permitting abuse. It means rehabilitation or isolation from others. They can still be their own person and aren’t forced into labor, but are not allowed to be a part of society again.
Slavery violates bodily autonomy, which is basically the worst ethical failing imaginable, worse than killing.
I think killing someone is a pretty major violation of that person’s bodily autonomy.
