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Are Americans that much more criminal or is something else going on here?
What is the PIC? What is Abolition? – Critical Resistance
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Are Americans that much more criminal or is something else going on here?
why the government would be interested in maintaining a high prison population
USA have very high wages, compared to the rest of the world, but also very high crame rates compared to the rest of the world.But I agree with part of your post. If we had high wages and universal employment, we would have way, way less crime.
What you've given me is what I would expect of a union in seeking better pay and conditions for it's members. The guard's union may or may not have excessive power however this doesn't establish a case that it is colluding with the government or prison owners to keep up incarceration rates.
Definitely not a conspiracy theory. It’s modern day slavery made possible by the 13th Amendment’s incarceration clause. They made an entire documentary on this titled “13th”.I read your article and, to some extent I could accept that there is a lobby which sets out to maintain it's influence in managing the prison sector as a profitable enterprise.
I'm less certain about just how far the conspiracy goes, whether there is collusion with police unions and why the government would be interested in maintaining a high prison population. Then again I don't live in your country so I'm likely to be blissfully unaware.
Conspiracy theories are often built on a scrap of foundational truth in order to give the theory credence. I'm far too much of a sceptic to buy this particular conspiracy without a reasonable level of proof.
OB
USA have very high wages, compared to the rest of the world, but also very high crame rates compared to the rest of the world.
USA have very high wages, compared to the rest of the world...
While I don't have the solution, it seems to me that we are applying an archaic 'lock 'em up methodology to solve a 21 century problem.
I do not live in the USA. You mean Australia has double minimum wage of Austria?Is that true across the board? Even allowing for currency conversion rates, our minimum wage in Australia is nearly double yours.
I do not live in the USA. You mean Australia has double minimum wage of Austria?
Some US citizens have high wage rates.
For much of the population wages are comparatively low, conditions are basic and income/job security is minimal.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/gini-coefficient-by-country/
The United States has a Gini coefficient of 0.485, the highest it has been in 50 years according to the United States Census Bureau. In 2015, the top 1% of earners in the United States averaged 40 times more income than the bottom 90%. Like other countries with higher Gini coefficients, poverty is an increasing issue. In the U.S. about 33 million workers earn less than $10 per hour, putting a family of four below the poverty level. Many of these low-wage workers have no sick days, pension, or health insurance.OB
The way I see it the police are fed up with never seeing positive results from their work, and the abuse they suffer at the hands of the people they are sworn to protect. No wonder they themselves are often abusive. If anyone is to blame for the current crisis it is those who write the ineffective laws and programs that do little to reduce crime.
I think you've been watching too much US TV.I think that average American population is very wealthy compared to the rest of the world, money is not the problem.
Just look at cars and houses they have. Compare to small cars and old, small appartments of Europeans.
I do not watch the US TVsI think you've been watching too much US TV.
OB
Definitely not a conspiracy theory. It’s modern day slavery made possible by the 13th Amendment’s incarceration clause. They made an entire documentary on this titled “13th”.
I think that average American population is very wealthy compared to the rest of the world, money is not the problem.
Just look at cars and houses they have. Compare to small cars and old, small appartments of Europeans.
Why do you think instead of just researching a bit ?
Instead of thinking that US is New York think that it is a continent. They have their own areas like Poland in comparison.
Europe is not London. Europe has low income areas like Kosovo or whatever.
Also about half of US citizens are living paycheck to paycheck.
A shocking number of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck
Social security is rubbish, incarceration rates are sky high, public healthcare is abysmal.
People who do well have very good time. People who do not really don’t and there are way more of them.
It is a land of extremes which explains the tiny problems of stability they experience now and then.
I did a lot of research. If i would live in the US, my salary (I work as a programmer) would be much higher, but the cost of living only slightly higher or even equal.
Any average US job is paid better than its counterpart in an average EU or Asian country. Even when the cost of living is compared.So you think average US job is on par with being a programmer?