No, having a system where “I’d pay you less if I legally could, but you have to work or die” is something I should be grateful for is incredibly fucked up.
Yes, capitalism wants to pay 2 cents or less for your labour. But it can only do this with the threat of starvation and villified, illegal homelessness.
When you remove that threat, capitalism loses its power over the population.
Oh, I have pipier!
Exactly, that’s when the free market dictates what a job really is worth
I’m not! Scrap minimum wage! Enact a livable UBI (also established by hard research and science and not politicians or lobbyists) and let the Free Market decide what a job is worth!
Ah, to be 6 years old again.
But then they have to fill those prisons with more and more people. How can America just increase the crime rate on a whim?
glances briefly to American history
Oh right, shit.
Let’s not forget that the Republicans are an army of sycophants with zero capacity to think or act for themselves. Trump is a narcissistic pawn and absolute loser, but even at the highest level of power he’s only a problem because the Republican Party are either spineless cowards or deranged cultists.
Ah, the American healthcare system!
Classic uplifting news! Community member(s) do something the fucking government should be doing.
About time for the covid hoarders to resupply!
Oh, he 100% is. Not what he says with his words, but what he says with his dead eyes and propped up smile. He’s not chasing a dream, he’s running away from a nightmare of fame that has left him a hollow yet addicted for the high of fame that is no longer achievable. He is a man who shot for the moon and, instead of landing among the stars, found himself stranded on the cold, lifeless rock, drifting along forever, alone, exactly where he said he wanted to be.