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Almost Half of Jury Pool in Elon Musk Trial Tossed After ‘So Many’ Said They ‘Hate’ Him
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Well first of all jury duty compensation is a fucking joke. You usually have to drive into a city where there is no parking at the ass crack of dawn during rush hour. Go through security bullshit. Deal with a bunch of dead-eyed, dickhead gov't workers that seem annoyed by your very existence. And then you find out it's for this fucking nepo-baby, everything-grifting pedophile that just gets his way no matter what anyway? I don't blame them at all. The whole system needs to be overhauled.
Yeah but also it's the price of having a jury of your peers if you need it
It they treated us well and compensated us equal to our regular pay and ensured necessary care for our pets or kids were covered as needed, it'd just be a little vacation of sorts, and possibly an bit of an adventure.
But naw, it's more like slavery than unskilled min wage employment.
If I were retired or otherwise available and bored, I'd do jury duty no problem. I'd volunteer occasionally.
I have bills to pay, pets,...
That's fair, I see it more as civic conscription, but I absolutely think that there needs to be more compensation or other support such as forcing your landlord or bank to scratch the costs of housing for days you're on jury duty. Police can afford mraps, parole is set to ensure no bed in a prison goes empty, no prison ever closes nor cop's overtime denied, and yet we can't find the money to compensate indigent juries or to pay for public defenders. But at the same time I'm one of the jury system's greatest defenders because it's one of the few checks on government tyranny we still have.