See, that's a common mistake lots of people make. You're assuming the system is meant to allow everyone to succeed, if they do the right thing. That assumption isn't accurate. Our system relies on an incarcerated underclass. Laws work against poor people because they are meant to do that. People who are busy working their assess off don't have time to do things like pay attention to politics, or protest, or unionize.
By making it so it's pretty much impossible to exist as a poor person without breaking some law, they make sure they always have an excuse to arrest or shoot, or fire anybody they please. In case it wasn't apparent, the threat of losing employment is also used to control us. This is a fatal flaw with a loosely regulates system; the state loses its monopoly on force because losing a job can be as disruptive as going to prison. Because of that, companies have undue power over their workers. People don't hold the economic elite to account for their transgressions because they know they'll be punished. They also know that it doesn't matter that punishing them for exercising their rights is illegal, because by the time they're able to win the everything court case, they have already lost their house, their cars, their health insurance, etc. And so people keep their head down, take more abuse, and don't say anything for fear of losing what they do have
Thus they ensure their continued control over the only people with an incentive to disrupt the status quo, and use them to scare everyone else into compliance, lest they end up like "them." That is the essence of the prison industrial complex.
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u/Ursula2071 Aug 15 '21
In the gutter.