its not about the wellbeing of our society, its about being in control. by force
A 32-hour, 4-day work week can be more productive than a traditional 40-hour, 5-day schedule, particularly for roles that require cognitive engagement beyond routine production line tasks.
There are studies that prove this. It also reduces sick days. Does anyone care? No, let’s ignore science because it feels like it’s more productive to force productivity.
People like simple solutions more than listening to science.
More cops, less crime.
More work, more productivity.
More billionaires, better economy.
Yeah one of the biggest learnings for me over my career is that people are hard-wired for stories. It doesn’t matter how good an engineer/scientist you are, how well explained or robust the logic/study is, etc. People only respond to how things make them feel - we are emotional beings with the ability to rationalize, not the other way around.
If poors stop doing crime and cops can’t arrest the poors then who will give profit prisons free labor??
The prisons are not gonna fill themselves
Trump and immigrants.
It’ll be poc and gsm, we’re already building and filling those camps.
At this rate Trump will be senile before going to prison for his crimes.
They’ll just invent new crimes. Like loitering, jaywalking, and using an open-source operating system that doesn’t forward your identity and details of your computer usage to governments and private companies.
The purpose of cops is not to reduce crime.
Well, part of their purpose is to reduce crime, but only crime against very rich people.
And their stuff. Can’t let anything happen to their stuff
The brainwash is leaking out your ears.
Cops are mainly to suppress anybody who doesn’t go along with the will of the powerful.
They don’t exist to reduce harm to the many, they exist to protect the assets of the Owner class, which is why in Law property “crime” is usually more severely punished than anything but murder and why cops are vastly more speedy at investigating and prosecuting “crimes” committed against the Owner class or their Assets than they are when it’s the riff-raff that suffers.
They’re minions to a handful of people, not servants of the public.
As a person whose home was recently burgled: I spoke with 4 different police officers/detectives in the investigation. I agree that what we need is a less desperate society, not more policing.
Let me guess… They’re investigating but have no interest in doing actual police work once the case is filed.
Bad cop, no doughnut.
The first two responded to the initial call, the second two were from the forensic ID team, checking for prints and seeing if there was anything likely to give a good DNA signal. I don’t know what else I could expect from them. I know they worked with the power company to figure out what time my power was cut, and went to my neighbours to see if they had any video from that time.
Why not both? Other people’s desperation is not an excuse to rob you.
Yeah I’m not excusing the burglars. I’m saying the way to reduce the number of burglars isn’t more police, it’s less desperation.
Because we live in a universe of finite resources. So maybe be efficient, and do the things that work best first. When we have a budget surplus we can talk about where to spend that.
More policing creates more criminals, which increases net desperation since society punishes people with a criminal history.
It’s more effective on a finite budget. Just like focusing on a rehabilitation is better than focusing on punishment in prisons. The Norwegian method spends way more per person but the ones that go through the system are much less likely to come back. This means that per person Norway spends way less than a lot of other countries.
Norway spends 3x more per prisoner than the US but spend half as much on prisons.
Explanations aren’t excuses. Especially because the things that drive individuals are systems; we can strive to hold individuals accountable for their actions whilst also recognise the systemic oppression that makes it harder to make good choices
This is psychologically unsatisfying for too many people. At the core of capitalist propaganda is the idea the the rich and the poor both deserve what they have. In the US, we further buttress this ideal with something called “prosperity gospel”.
Yeah but that doesn’t serve the prison industrial slavery complex
No no no, that’s socialism! Which people have learned is bad… Because, empathy is toxic!
They know. But it’s better for them for crime to be up and police to be fat, so they can run on being hard on crime, and police works for the rich instead of the people.
Prison labor is essentially legalized slavery so there is incentive to keep poor people incarcerated. There’s a reason why the US is the most incarcerated nation in the world.
But does it protect capital?
And is it fun?
Show me the science Jerry!
SHOW ME THE SCIENCE!!
The pedophile class wants everything
Yeah, well, science also says Twitter is an information black hole, and few that need to see this will see it.
I know it’s microblog memes, but still. It’s surprising to me how much scientist believers post about the state of the world… on Twitter. It’d be like going into a Nazi bar in Berlin to warn about the Holocaust, or to criticize Catholicism in the Vatican, and thinking you’re somehow in an open forum.
…At least it isn’t a blue checkmart Tweeter, though.
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