Sometimes the trash takes itself out.

same.

it's hard to enjoy the schadenfreude when it comes at the cost of trafficking and raping children.

i agree, and further think that the penalty for falsifying inculpatory/hiding exculpatory evidence by the prosecution should automatically be the sentence they were seeking for the defendant.

assessing performance by conviction rate is antithetical to justice or "corrections."

you're missing the point; we vilify minimum wage earners for asking for a living wage, as if they're greedy, yet allow corporations to engage in profligate wage theft, grossly overpaying their c-suite.

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if the hypothetical barista in this example can afford all of those things, i doubt they'd qualify for federal assistance programs (that aren't tax breaks), and certainly isn't using their barista income to afford that lifestyle.

i know what that feels like, lol.

i'd argue that we're still riding upon the largesse of slavery.

yep. interestingly, it's not like that everywhere i. the world. i studied in japan in undergrad, and their attitude toward service jobs is wildly different than ours.

i think capitalism is a terminal condition, but even if one purports to be for it, what we have in the US is not it.

it's almost as if none of the purported "adults in the room" have ever seen a campaign from the inside, worked on one, or understand how much success relies on the relationships built through the hard work and creativity of the ground level folks who do most of the work and you never hear about.

more importantly, it's using depressed wages/increased prices to maintain an artificially high percentage of profit.

this is the other side of the coin from artificially suppressing minimum wage, and conning you into thinking the person who isn't paid enough to afford rent in is being greedy.

and before you raise the "but coffee will cost too much if we pay the barista enough to live on" argument, you should know that if we hadn't artificially suppressed minimum wage, you'd never have noticed.