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There's plenty of political support across the US to imprison people, no matter how much it costs. There's almost none to build people housing, even if it's che
by crooked-v 2y ago
There's plenty of political support across the US to imprison people, no matter how much it costs. There's almost none to build people housing, even if it's cheap. People are illogical like that.
- namaria 2y agoIncarceration being expensive is a feature. The drive comes from a profit motive in private prison concerns. Sending the poor to use expensive military kit on vulnerable foreign populations and arresting the non compliant is much more profitable than just providing every one of them with shelter and job opportunities. Society doesn't optimize globally for good will, it optimizes locally for profit.