Comment on Six days of horror: America’s thirst for executions returns with a vengeance
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoI agree overall, but the cost argument has always been a joke to me. It doesn’t NEED to cost more, but they allow companies to monopolize everything in this country and tie their friends into legislation, even pertaining to murdering people, so they can charge whatever they want for their “products” and they don’t have to worry about competition.
quicklime@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Right? And meanwhile the alternatives also cost more than they ought to if our whole system weren’t so fully captured by profit seeking.
It seems our species as a whole has deep problems of greed, corruption, nepotism… we’re fundamentally, maybe even genetically, not very close to systemically social and selfless behavior. We turn any system of government and economy and social structure to the benefit of an elite few eventually.