It's more expensive to keep someone in jail than it is to send them to college.
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2025
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Ah but you forget that the jail money goes to your buddies who own the prison industrial complex.
These rocks aren't going to break themselves!
Expensive for the taxpayers.
Inexpensive for the slave-labour enjoyers that rent the inmates for cents per hour.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime
It's socially acceptable to pay to take something away from someone, but not to give it to them.
Oh. So you're gonna pay ne to run a private college where i can sell your labor for pennies on the dollar?
Oh. So you'll pay me to start a private college where i can sell your labor for my own profit?
When all else fails, the bar is always open.
You ever notice how the factory doors close around the time that the school doors close, around the time that jail cells open up to greet you?
In America, you defend yourself against a bully and your school admin call the cops to arrest you.
Fuck the staff, corrupt as fuck mini-dictators
ACAB
Where is this from? It looks depressingly old :(
Well, seeing as Rage Against the Machine had a while song about this 25 years ago, i would say this was the inevitablity of American society
It does amaze me when i pop on some old school rage and its extremely applicable to todays events
USA, modern day
I mean, the illustration itself, not the concept..
Don't read anarchist speeches and theory from the (18)90s.
Just copy paste the lyrics to the doors song, "the end"
I don't get it, why is the zebra door open? Is this for the zoo?
See? This is what happens when you close the schools.
The animals escape?
Thanks for proving my point.
Great minds think alike.
They sure do!
Do not pass goat. Do not collect 200 pellets.
People in this thread just hate animals :(
That's an old jail cell door, if you're referring to the one in the lower right.