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The cynical way prisoners are exploited is reminiscent of the way prisons in the middle ages were run, except they didn't have marketers back then.
by mercurial 12y ago
The cynical way prisoners are exploited is reminiscent of the way prisons in the middle ages were run, except they didn't have marketers back then.
- innguest 12y agoTo me it is reminiscent of the way our government (and most others) works. Both involve a monopoly on banking, granted by the government, to enrich government-selected corporations, at the expense of non-bankers. No need to go back to the middle ages to find analogies. :)
- mercurial 12y agoI was more thinking of how prisoners used to be nickel and dimed by gaolers back in the day.