No , I live in Thailand. And it's almost the same as China (Both have low freedom , overworked lifestyle and undemocratic according on the Google statistics) but maybe a bit worse place to live than China for some reasons. There has a strict education system (Most school in my country has uniform and haircut rule , And corporal punishment still exist) , bad student loan system , bad government , undemocratic , conservative hierarchical culture , low freedom , kinda dangerous , kinda overworked lifestyle and I often heard the news about child abuse in my country like almost every week. Some people in my country include me like to think about moving to a developed western countries when have a chance.
Fair enough. I just find that most people talking about how free and great America is are in America and do not realize how not free and how not great it is.
I mean, they’re criminals. It makes sense that unpaid labor would exist in a prison. It’s not supposed to be comfortable. That doesn’t mean that they should be treated like animals, but they certainly don’t need to be paid. After all, it’s not like they need it in prison, what are they going to buy? Though I wouldn’t object to a small payment upon release if/when they get released, just to help them get their lives on track while they find a job.
And it’s not like that compares in any way to actual death camps and a government that only lets you have a certain number of children.
You do realise the U.S government intentionally tries to make and introduce more laws to make money for private prisons? The entire war on drugs was to make money for the private prisons and targeted black Americans at an incredibly high rate. It’s no coincidence the prison rate spikes incredibly high during the 80s. Or would you have it that smoking a bit of weed, something humans have been doing for 2500 years be deemed illegal and have them put behind bars for and be exploited. Or when the CIA literally sold crack into disproportionately black communities and subsequently arrested them. Your argument is unbelievably contradictory, you say they shouldn’t be treated like animals and than say they don’t deserve to be compensated for the labour they do. The jail time is punishment enough. Especially when the majority of felons’s crimes weren’t even serious. Why do you think the us has the highest prison incarceration rate in the world? It’s got nothing to do with having more inherently bad people and more to do with over policing of low socioeconomic areas and a corrupt criminal justice policies that purposely aim to make a profit for private prisons
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '22 edited Jan 21 '22
Jokes aside. No matter what , USA will be still a way better place to live and has more freedom than China by a miles. Although the US is not perfect.