This x 1000. If Aliens were trying to find an example of advanced civilization and they saw how things operated in the US, they’d very much think we are a messy

This x 1000. If Aliens were trying to find an example of advanced civilization and they saw how things operated in the US, they’d very much think we are a messy and non functioning civilization that would eventually wipe ourselves out. The truth is we as a nation consider prisoners as a second glass citizen. Like humans with defects from a manufacturing plant that need to be contained in jails away from everything. And we have a dark side of capitalism that optimizes for stock value without regard for human element. We are already in the world of AIs optimizing endlessly to increase a magic number without much regard to external consequences.