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Yeah, they found keeping inmates alive is lucrative: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-workers-low-wages-exploited https://www.theguard

Yeah, they found keeping inmates alive is lucrative: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-workers-low-wages-exploited https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-wo...

alephnerd 3y ago
Try dealing with Vietnam or Indian police as a Westerner "carrying" drugs. You better pay up or you might find yourself with a bullet in your head in a ditch. Oh, and body cams are not a thing.
- ryanwaggoner 3y ago
  Many of these countries have extremely harsh punishments for drug offenses, AND have corrupt law enforcement where bribery is normal, but I challenge you to provide a single example of where a Westerner refused to bribe police and were subsequently shot in the head and dumped in a ditch. That makes little sense on multiple levels. Edit: Ironically, searching for examples of such an incident only brings up examples of Indians and Vietnamese folks getting shot by police in America.
  - kazinator 3y ago
    Even in Midnight Express, it is the American who kills the Turk in the end. And one of the antagonists helping to enforce the draconian law is an American.
VS1999 3y ago
You really need to appreciate the difference between an average person living under a corrupt communist regime, and a country where jail conditions aren't all that nice after you commit a crime. Even the numbers in this case are 3% of Vietnam's GPD embezzled by one, or less than 0.1% of the US GDP produced by prisoners collectively (according to your link). I'm tired of seeing these one-line dismissive "zingers" that have taken over the internet.
- CaptainFever 3y ago
  Note that the GP is doing Whataboutism, which is actually an old Communist tactic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#Soviet_Union_and_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#Soviet_Union_and_...

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Yeah, they found keeping inmates alive is lucrative: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-workers-low-wages-exploited https://www.theguard

by readyplayernull 3y ago

alephnerd 3y ago
Try dealing with Vietnam or Indian police as a Westerner "carrying" drugs. You better pay up or you might find yourself with a bullet in your head in a ditch. Oh, and body cams are not a thing.
- ryanwaggoner 3y ago
  Many of these countries have extremely harsh punishments for drug offenses, AND have corrupt law enforcement where bribery is normal, but I challenge you to provide a single example of where a Westerner refused to bribe police and were subsequently shot in the head and dumped in a ditch. That makes little sense on multiple levels. Edit: Ironically, searching for examples of such an incident only brings up examples of Indians and Vietnamese folks getting shot by police in America.
  - kazinator 3y ago
    Even in Midnight Express, it is the American who kills the Turk in the end. And one of the antagonists helping to enforce the draconian law is an American.
VS1999 3y ago
You really need to appreciate the difference between an average person living under a corrupt communist regime, and a country where jail conditions aren't all that nice after you commit a crime. Even the numbers in this case are 3% of Vietnam's GPD embezzled by one, or less than 0.1% of the US GDP produced by prisoners collectively (according to your link). I'm tired of seeing these one-line dismissive "zingers" that have taken over the internet.
- CaptainFever 3y ago
  Note that the GP is doing Whataboutism, which is actually an old Communist tactic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#Soviet_Union_and_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#Soviet_Union_and_...