Journal Jeremiah Cornelius's Journal: Slavery 6
Slavery is the natural, logical outcome of the unregulated, Laissez-faire free market.
Period.
Slavery is the natural, logical outcome of the unregulated, Laissez-faire free market.
Period.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
Which is why I never argue a pure libertarianism (Score:2)
Slavery is socialism, when that market has been destroyed, or over-regulated to the point of mission-kill.
Under-regulation is anarchy, again, a purely libertarian view.
Prisons for Profit (Score:2)
The rates charged to buy things and communicate with inmates are insane. My brother-in-law has been in prison for a long time. I'm fine with him serving time (he shot 2 people), but he's been in for over 20 years and had his last parole denied despite having been well-behaved for quite some time and even one of the guys whom he shot and put in a wheelchair going to the parole board and saying he's served enough time.
The problem is, I think, his mom takes good care of him and buys a lot of stuff through the
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Who owns the prison? Most of them have been privatized now.
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It's like something out of a Dickens novel.
(Not one of the nicer bits.)
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FIFY : AmeriKKKa.