You're definitely spending less on them.
tmyakal
joined 2 years ago
Just to piggyback off of this: trial-by-jury in the US is nearly nonexistent now. Less than 10% of arrests lead to a jury trial. Most go to a plea bargain.
The state no longer has to convince 12 of your peers that you're guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. They just need to convince you that you'll suffer more if you maintain innocence than if you accept guilt.
I haven't been to a doctor in over twenty years now. For most of that time, either I didn't have insurance or my insurance was so laughably bad and my wages so low that I couldn't afford to use it. Now I've got a decent job and decent insurance, but the nearest doctor accepting patients is over 50 miles away.
Guess all I can do is cross my fingers and hope whatever kills me does it quick.
I read about a pilot program in Canada back in the '70s or '80s that found that fewer people on UBI had jobs, but those people who left the workforce were overwhelmingly new mothers and older teens who were still in school.
Kurt Vonnegut had a fun take on this exact scenario in his first book, Player Piano.
My professor wrote his own textbook and sold it to us to supplement his salary.
Or, hear me out: tax the rich.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is coming out next year.
Assuming you are correct, being aggressive or violent whilst being arrested for a $3 crime should be punishable by death?
Skipping a fare should not be punishable by death, I don't care how wealthy the skipper is.
Why are we posting stories from 2018?
Could own a two-family home. It's super common in my area for there to be one apartment downstairs and one upstairs.