• El_guapazo@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Inmates aren’t used for individual homeowners. They’re used in corporate farms, public beautification projects, or fire fighting. Settings where it’s easier to manage groups in one place. Not have them roam around in place where they have unrestricted access to potential victims.

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      There’s a large amount of trade work to be done for individual homeowners. That’s my point. Of course you can have slaves clean the factory boilers, and in a cruel and unjust enough society it’s practically guaranteed that you will do so (it’s hazardous work after all, and who better to do hazardous work than someone you deem subhuman?). But the idea of replacing residential plumbers with ICE prisoners is ridiculous. It’s much more likely that productive residential plumbers would become ICE prisoners because of cruel, unjust, and bad governance.

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          I don’t want an endless thread about this issue, because I don’t really care anyway. I have a plumber and the dude’s house is worth twice as much as mine.

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            4 days ago

            I have a plumber

            How are their knees? Do they need to be replaced? How about their hip and back? Do they experience any work-related joint pain?

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              I have no idea. I didn’t say I had a friend that was a plumber. I said I had a plumber. This is the states man, people don’t usually get all up in each other’s business like this. We’re a transactional, individualistic, and now fascistic people. But he seems like he’s doing pretty well.