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Originally posted by pirhanna
reply to post by Leftist
Prisons have become nothing more than another capitalist / corporatist wealth aggregating exercise.
There are of course always a few people that need to be separated from society - but this is way beyond ridiculous. It's absolute tyranny.
Not sure what will change it, but it can't go on forever like this.
@OP thanks for that insightful graph.
One more thing - prohibition has been the secondary institution for enforcement of the societal schism between ultra wealthy and the working class. It feeds the prison system and restricts class mobility on the macro scale. Unfettered capitalism is itself the prime progenitor of this neo-feudalist stratification.edit on 21-6-2012 by pirhanna because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Leftist
Originally posted by smirkley
I have problems with the chart.
Validity in the numbers can be quite easily tarnished when one cant even spell the word "percent" properly.
It is "percent", not "per cent".
If something that basic is missed,........ you get the point?
I'm no daniel webster,i misspell words all the time,the english language is very confusing to say the least and so why should that have anything vital to do with the issues and the points of this eye and mind opening thread?
Originally posted by smirkley
I have problems with the chart.
Validity in the numbers can be quite easily tarnished when one cant even spell the word "percent" properly.
It is "percent", not "per cent".
If something that basic is missed,........ you get the point?
Originally posted by drwizardphd
Originally posted by smirkley
I have problems with the chart.
Validity in the numbers can be quite easily tarnished when one cant even spell the word "percent" properly.
It is "percent", not "per cent".
If something that basic is missed,........ you get the point?
There's no error there. "Per cent" is just as valid as "percent", it is used more commonly in England and other English-speaking countries outside of the US.
Per Cent is derived from latin and means "by the hundred". Percent is just a shortened version we use here in America.
Please don't be so quick to dismiss a well-presented argument based on something so trivial.