its not about the wellbeing of our society, its about being in control. by force
This just in: people will resort to any means necessary to eat. More at 10.
Remember kids, if you see someone shoplifting at the supermarket, no you didn’t.
one of the biggest grocery chains in australia just made $2B last FY. They’ll be fine.
Loss is calculated in anyhow. Unless they go out of their way there’s no way to know what caused it - shoplifting, breakage, employees making themselves feel slightly better about their abysmal working conditions…
Most of the people who work there don’t even care if you’re shoplifting.
A 32-hour, 4-day work week can be more productive than a traditional 40-hour, 5-day schedule, particularly for roles that require cognitive engagement beyond routine production line tasks.
There are studies that prove this. It also reduces sick days. Does anyone care? No, let’s ignore science because it feels like it’s more productive to force productivity.
People like simple solutions more than listening to science.
More cops, less crime.
More work, more productivity.
More billionaires, better economy.
Yeah one of the biggest learnings for me over my career is that people are hard-wired for stories. It doesn’t matter how good an engineer/scientist you are, how well explained or robust the logic/study is, etc. People only respond to how things make them feel - we are emotional beings with the ability to rationalize, not the other way around.
As a person whose home was recently burgled: I spoke with 4 different police officers/detectives in the investigation. I agree that what we need is a less desperate society, not more policing.
If poors stop doing crime and cops can’t arrest the poors then who will give profit prisons free labor??
Trump and immigrants.
At this rate Trump will be senile before going to prison for his crimes.
Source?
This just confirms my preexisting biases a little too much.
Holly
Well she did do the sciency thing
This is psychologically unsatisfying for too many people. At the core of capitalist propaganda is the idea the the rich and the poor both deserve what they have. In the US, we further buttress this ideal with something called “prosperity gospel”.
The purpose of cops is not to reduce crime.
But does it protect capital?
Cops are mainly to suppress anybody who doesn’t go along with the will of the powerful.
They don’t exist to reduce harm to the many, they exist to protect the assets of the Owner class, which is why in Law property “crime” is usually more severely punished than anything but murder and why cops are vastly more speedy at investigating and prosecuting “crimes” committed against the Owner class or their Assets than they are when it’s the riff-raff that suffers.
They’re minions to a handful of people, not servants of the public.
Related: it’s been long known that giving unemployed people money is good for the economy.
“I’m a supporting member of society because I work 40h/week, and you aren’t” simply isn’t true.
I don’t have the scientific paper to support this but I’ve known it since the 1990s.
Economists know it too. It doesn’t even have anything to do with “socialism”.
Homeless people cost tax payers between 30-50 thousand dollars a year. Housing the homeless is likely fiscally conservative.
This means the incentive structure in our society is wrong. People who lack the creativity to solve novel problems resort to psychopathy to to be productive in the economy. Military industrial complex, private prisons, judge judy.
If only it were that simple.
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Wrong.
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No no no, that’s socialism! Which people have learned is bad… Because, empathy is toxic!
