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The court is an inefficient way of providing the state with free labor. He could have skipped the court and just gotten a job and started paying income taxes.
by mason240 11y ago
The court is an inefficient way of providing the state with free labor. He could have skipped the court and just gotten a job and started paying income taxes.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoTell it to the prison-industrial complex.
- wpietri 11y agoIf everybody's metric of success is national maximized social/economic utility, your point would be fine. But that isn't the case. Many people prefer a positional metric, where they'd rather be poor as long as other people are poorer. See, e.g.: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268198000894 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268198... If the point is money, then yes, you'd be right. But for a lot of people the point is status, not money. Taking a vulnerable or visibly different group of people and forcing them into a subordinate state is going to feel like success to a lot of people.