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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

There's been a surplus of workers in the United States for a very long time at this point from the perspective of capital. As has been argued for a decade or more, the massive rise in prison population in the United States is in part because they're just holding sells for surplus reserve army of labour. They think they can afford to lose a lot more.