• RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Company sued government for not adhering to contract.

    The moral outrage should be at the people involved in the contract negotiations for the government and the fucker who ended up signing said contract. That group of persons and their entire genepool should be made to fill the vacant spots.

    We had something a little similar here. Local government had a contract with an incineration company for trash. Then we started separating our trash more for recycling. And the local government is now BUYING trash from Italy and trucking it here to be incinerated because that is cheaper than the fines in the contract.

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      To be sure. The lawsuit is fine, if you build capacity for the state and they don’t use it, they still need to pay for the costs of having that capacity. Actually creating a situation where a business must increase incarceration to create a profit is actually the potential for a much darker path than a fucking lawsuit.

      The problem is it was privatized at all.

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        Yeah, the privatization is the issue. The state should be directly paying for maintenance of the facilities so there’s no incentive to have more prisoners. Profit shouldn’t be part of the equation at all.

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        I think we should just let the for profit prison go bankrupt. Fuck em.

        Aren’t capitalist pigs always talking about how they take on all the risk? Then fucking take on some risk, asshole.

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          Oh I’m all for radical change up to and including the redistribution of property and the abolishment of common law. I just don’t think that’s happening anytime soon.

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            But this is completely compatible with cappie propaganda. The business took a risk and overextended.