cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/40889881
Capitalism creates generational poverty.
Generational poverty breeds desperation.
Desperation leads to self-destructive behaviors, broken families, fractured communities, isolation, crime, child abuse, etc.
Capitalism creates prisons, nonprofit industrial complex, big pharm, etc. to profit from the desperation.
It’s a never-ending cycle.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
One reason for this may be the fact that prisons in the US are run as a business in which private companies earn billions.