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[–] 21 points 1 month ago (6 children)

And to feed the prison industrial complex, of course.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    workers at the charge of public expenses, working for the benefits of private companies 😍

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I see it as a direct continuation of:

    Slavery->Sharecropping and Jim Crow->mass incarceration

    Slavery never ended. The name just changed to be more polite, with a fig leaf of freedom and free will. Additionally we realized two things:

    1. It's more economical to hold slaves in large central facilities than dispersed.

    2. The best way to fight abolitionism is to convince the populace that the slaves deserve it.

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