the burger slave cannot eat burgers they make, only slave food of lower quality. when the burger slave is released, they have to pay back the state for imprisoning them. they cannot get the job they did at mcdonalds as a slave because they have a criminal record. they cannot afford the burger made by other slaves. they go back to prison for violating parole and are sent to the burger plantation again.
Huh, that just reminds me. All the MRAs worried about “false accusations” will swear up and down that men of color will never worry about being falsely accused, only white men.
Black kid smokes a joint: prison labor and permanent inability to get livable wage.
Rich white (or honorary white) SV enjoying techbros drugging their "math pets" with new custom drug cocktails: that's just sex positivity and not a crime.
What's next that america can gentrify for the rich to do without punishment? Legal murder. It's now legal to hunt homeless for sport if you're worth over a mil.
I just want to be clear - if a legitimate court is not handy then the laws and customs of the sea state that any ship which captures a slaver vessel may hold a trial before the mast and needs only establish the bare fact that the crew were slavers engaged in the slave trade to hang them all.
“Phew! What a relief! Looks like we don’t have to worry about uppity poors like you seeing a penny!”
Really cool and good that prisons are seen as a boost for the already massive reserve army of labor in the west.
This also takes away jobs from the “law-abiding citizens” that these hogs claim to care so much about. So we get the imperial boomerang too! Try using “they’re taking our jobs!” as a reason to oppose the private prison industry.
it's Jacobin. They're "Agreeable Left"(TM) but this is not an article or headline sincerely espousing that, but sarcastically satirizing the 1:1 attitude of the ruling class to do something like this, in agitprop form to highlight the contradiction between the capitalists' and their states' actions and what workers actually want, and so spark anger.
I'm just thinking about how a socialist penal system could use employment in a civilian workplace as a way of helping convicted criminals to reintegrate into society and how fundamentally different it would be from this American burger slavery.