Submitted 5 hours ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to workreform@lemmy.world
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Louisiana was the only state that didn’t secede because of the issue of slavery per se.
they were afraid that their human breeding programs and slave market/futures market would collapse
if you go to Walmart, Kroger, or Publix and look up the company that produces those big Dora balloons and other cartoon characters, that’s all Louisiana slave labor.
the overton window in Louisiana is firmly in the territory of “well you gotta have slaves though” and probably will be like that forever
I would like to permenantly house and feed myself for $16k. I have cash. Tell me how
It’s likely a room in a boarding house, and food through a volunteer kitchen - so that $16K is still being subsidised through private charities and/or local + state Government grants.
Don’t mistake me, though - I’m all for these types of programs. They’re a hell of a lot better than a swathe of people being homeless on the streets, or incarcerated in an overcrowded prison.
I’m pretty sure the actual cost is to permanently house and feed them until they can get a job that gets them self sufficient.
Yeah, those numbers don’t make sense with the word “permanently”.
Elon Musk said he’d end world hunger if that were something that could be done. The United Nations World Food Programme did the math: $6.6 billion per year. That’s it! You can guess how much the world’s richest man has donated toward this cause…
Just for perspective, a person who invested in the stock market recently and got a 5% return would be said to be investing poorly.
5% may not seem like much, but just for comparison, 5% of a trillion dollars is 50 billion dollars. I think you can see the point. Musk could solve world hunger, and it would be like chump change to him, even if he did fairly poorly with his investments. He wouldn’t even have to touch his savings.
He’s refusing to help people whose lives are being ruined without that help, or who are dying, even though the only penalty for Musk is that he would be getting inconceivably richer at a slightly slower rate.
Last I heard he NEGATED $43.8 Billion dollars of aid by cutting USAID, causing the deaths of 4.5 Million Children around the world.
How Much Would It Cost to End World Hunger?
The U.N. World Food Programme feeds over 100 million people facing severe hunger in more than 120 countries and territories every year. In 2021, WFP did this with a budget of $9.6 billion dollars, which was still $5.2 billion dollars short of their total funding requirements. Clearly, ending world hunger will require more money.
Back in July of 2021, former U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley mentioned it would take an estimated $40 billion each year to end world hunger by 2030.
But you see the billionaires don’t have any money, just a number they keep pumping up.
You're not counting the value of the slave labor.
Except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted
Nor is the fact mentioned that most prisons in the U.S. are run by and as for-profit private companies.
That is why so many people are incarcerated in the U.S., and unpaid slave labor is part of this multibillion-dollar business.
It is a business that, for entirely obvious reasons, no other democracy in the world allows in this absurd form—only the U.S., the “Land of the Free.”
Most? I’m gonna need a source for that cause unless that’s changed recently, they’ve been mostly public prisons.
actually GOP likely uses things like prison pop as part of the census for thier start, this likely another source too.
-$50,000, if the figures presented are to be believed. I guess that’s what happens when your party is led by a certified business genius.
Hm its almost like slaves aren’t quality labor or something. Weird.
Republicans are a cancer to this world
Slavery with extra steps
I vibe with it but let’s be accurate here:
Based on FY 2023 data, the average annual COIF for a Federal inmate housed in a Bureau or non-Bureau facility in FY 2023 was $44,090 ($120.80 per day). The average annual COIF for a Federal inmate housed in a Residential Reentry Center for FY 2023 was $41,437 ($113.53 per day).
(Please note: There were 365 days in FY 2023.)
James Wills,
Assistant Director/General Counsel,
Federal Bureau of Prisons.
[FR Doc. 2024-28743 Filed: 12/5/2024 8:45 am; Publication Date: 12/6/2024]
And the low end is closer to $20,000 while the high end (higher security) was near $75,000 and most interesting of all is that the food and healthcare combined is less than $8,000 but the cost of the institution itself (beds and housing) varies wildly dependent on location as would the amount needed to house people outside of prison, and almost half the cost is paying wages to prison staff including records keeping, attorneys, management, and a metric butt-load of guards.
So, the system is broken and they’re trying to abuse prison labor to the extreme, especially private sector and this specific administration, but in theory some federal prisons are already approaching the efficiency of the 16k number.
You’d also have to put a number on the value of prison labor - it’s unethical, but that never stopped the suits.
FluorideMind@lemmy.world 9 minutes ago
Criminalize existing, to make slaves.