• SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months 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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      4 months ago

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