Vicky Osterweil, at Bluesky: "Stop thinking of prisons as a profit machine and start thinking of them as the most cruel (and expensive) possible version of a social safety net for surplus popoluations, and you'll get a lot further to understanding how they work to maintain order and society"
https://bsky.app/profile/vickyacab.bsky.social/post/3lu3sr5l6522n
"US houses and feeds millions of people. Millions. It punishes them with extreme violence for doing so. The constant bureaucratic punishment applying for + keeping benefits in this country is the same logic. The state will keep you alive, but it would prefer not to, so does it in humiliating distress"
https://bsky.app/profile/vickyacab.bsky.social/post/3lu3t3ivscs2n
"It refuses to house people outside the prison system because real estate value is one of the base units of all value in this country of stolen land. Production/productive value has been made so efficient that real profit is only possible in rent extraction: land, IP [tech, pharma eg] and consumption"
https://bsky.app/profile/vickyacab.bsky.social/post/3lu3tak2vns2n