https://jacobin.com/2024/09/alabama-convict-labor-fast-food/

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    What the hell even is that headline?

    “Phew! What a relief! Looks like we don’t have to worry about uppity poors like you seeing a penny!”

    Really cool and good that prisons are seen as a boost for the already massive reserve army of labor in the west.

    This also takes away jobs from the “law-abiding citizens” that these hogs claim to care so much about. So we get the imperial boomerang too! Try using “they’re taking our jobs!” as a reason to oppose the private prison industry.

    • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      it's Jacobin. They're "Agreeable Left"(TM) but this is not an article or headline sincerely espousing that, but sarcastically satirizing the 1:1 attitude of the ruling class to do something like this, in agitprop form to highlight the contradiction between the capitalists' and their states' actions and what workers actually want, and so spark anger.