America is a prison camp. Capitalism has unemployment built in to the system (reserve army of labor). It means that there must be unemployment for capitalism to work. This means unemployed and homeless people will be created by capitalism. Fremont CA has just criminalised homeless people. They criminalised the victims of capitalism.
How else to explain the brutal insanity of forcibly encarcerating a homeless person in California in a building with rooms, walls and ceilings - with food and electricity - that costs the same as housing *except* to extract the slave labor of the incarcerated person.
Likewise, what is the purpose of forcibly incarcerating someone who is in mental distress? Let other people leave their intellectual comfort zones and answer the question - then perhaps humanity will find a solution.
You make some excellent points. I think most people don't understand that one of the ways the government tries to fight inflation is by working to slow employment and create more unemployment and 'cool' the economy and wage demands. So creating a large sector of unemployed people is part of the core functioning of the current system. Similarly, in a broader sense, poverty is one of the key ways wealth is often created, i.e. the more poor people there are and the more willing they are to work for less, the more power (and relative wealth) a wealthier person has.
Why? People are not asking 'why?'
America is a prison camp. Capitalism has unemployment built in to the system (reserve army of labor). It means that there must be unemployment for capitalism to work. This means unemployed and homeless people will be created by capitalism. Fremont CA has just criminalised homeless people. They criminalised the victims of capitalism.
How else to explain the brutal insanity of forcibly encarcerating a homeless person in California in a building with rooms, walls and ceilings - with food and electricity - that costs the same as housing *except* to extract the slave labor of the incarcerated person.
Likewise, what is the purpose of forcibly incarcerating someone who is in mental distress? Let other people leave their intellectual comfort zones and answer the question - then perhaps humanity will find a solution.
You make some excellent points. I think most people don't understand that one of the ways the government tries to fight inflation is by working to slow employment and create more unemployment and 'cool' the economy and wage demands. So creating a large sector of unemployed people is part of the core functioning of the current system. Similarly, in a broader sense, poverty is one of the key ways wealth is often created, i.e. the more poor people there are and the more willing they are to work for less, the more power (and relative wealth) a wealthier person has.