this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
669 points (96.7% liked)

Comic Strips

21726 readers
2583 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 71 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 21 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

House them AND guarantee they'll never get out of the system.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

What if we commoditized the homeless as a profit center for government contractors?

But then we complained about how much this was costing the public sector, so we privatized the entire state bureaucracy and billed it out of the public coffers as "National Security"?

And then if you complained about the horrifying abuse of civil liberties, we labeled you an enemy of the state and threw you in jail as well?

I can't think of anything more AnCap than this.

[–] mghackerlady@leminal.space 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic but an ancap would only agree with half of this. The difference is instead of the government oppressing you it'd be google or something

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Peter Thiel is an AnCap, though.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

But there are "for-profit prisons," I personally am not sure how that functions, but also the inmates are required to have a job in the prison earning just a few insulting pennies per day, becoming useful to society making license plates or whatever the heck labor they make prisoners do.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago

They turn a profit by contracting their services out to governments and businesses

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 13 hours ago

Besides the slavery, government also pays them to keep people in prison. Then they can use all that money to lobby for things like weed being illegal so more people go to jail, more immigrant harassment, etc