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Not community. Economy.

Slavery, Prison labour, migrant labour that you can totally rip off and not pay, and lastly child labour. That's what's propping up the economy at this point..

Which again raises crime, which in turn raises the amount of underpaid prison labor.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but you should really at least name a documentary and share some insight that it brings.

The US has way better propaganda - the marketing strategies invented in the 60s by the nephew of Freud were put to very good use at bypassing people's reasoning and not just at making them feel needs, fears, and short-term endorphine jolts related to products and services being sold.

Also the US has way better circus and more bread than Russia.

Cuz different rule sets apply to different parts of the world. That and the clever naming scheme the US usually applies to make things sound not as bad or marginably better than they actually are.

Also frequently hear the same argument made for any change to the thoroughly corrupt healthcare scheme in the U.S.

That any form of socialized medicine would collapse the insurance industries putting thousands out of work and damaging stock portfolios and retirement accounts that may have invested in such. But hey, it's totally ok to bankrupt tons of citizens and enslave ill folks to lousy jobs because they can't afford to lose employment-tied insurance that would never be affordable as an individual.

I would argue that it's not even modernized. It's just the same argument.

To be fair this is hardly a problem unique to western capitalism. Gulag labor in the USSR was widely acknowledged and documented. And there are likewise credible accusations of forced labor (and much worse) in China as well. It's bad in every case, and intellectually honest observers would condemn this practice in every instance.

This isn't capitalism or communism - it's an autocracy and human rights issue. The places with the best criminal justice outcomes these days are generally the "third way socialism" eg Scandinavian model countries which have a blended version of regulated capitalism and wealth redistribution.

Btw, https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/

Well, actually, yes. Or without migrant labour which they are losing hence the child labour law issues recently. Study harder. You will get it.

Sounds like slavery with extra steps, cuz it is.

Sounds like pure slavery:

1. catch someone

2. take away their freedom

3. force them to work