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"Prison industrial complex" is verbal sleight of hand to blame a system rather than people, but in reality these market forces are merely the revealed preferenc
by krspykrm 6y ago
"Prison industrial complex" is verbal sleight of hand to blame a system rather than people, but in reality these market forces are merely the revealed preference of what people want. If people wanted these inmates free - and by wanted I mean wanted in the revealed preference sense, not the virtue signal on the internet sense - capitalism would have them free tomorrow.
- aplummer 6y ago> If people wanted these inmates free - and by wanted I mean wanted in the revealed preference sense, not the virtue signal on the internet sense - capitalism would have them free tomorrow. That’s not how the world or capitalism works at all. Plenty of people want things and don’t get them. If you are referring to “a majority of people” then it’s still not how it works - for example the structure of the existing system affects it (see no president Clinton). There is much more to decisions and change. In this case, a minority of profit seeking people with power use levers of control on decision makers and propaganda to create public policy.
- krspykrm 6y agoThis is just hand-waving and misdirection. Even China and Russia, who couldn't give a rat's ass about human rights, do not have anywhere near the mass incarceration problem that the US does. No other country has this problem. All you have to do is go to any Reddit thread and watch Americans cheer about prison rape and masturbate over how if you selectively remove information you can make the crime sound worse than it actually was and use that low-resolution non-central point to justify imprisoning the person for 1827361872 years. I'm sorry dude, it's not corporations, it's not systematic incentives, it's Americans. The American people are the problem.