If you have money, you can pay the bail and get released, while poor people can’t.

I don’t see why people with money should get benefits in the legal system?

  • Josey_Wales@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 hours ago

    I don’t see why people with money should get benefits in the legal a capitalist system.

    I agree cash bail is insane, however, reframing the problem should help make it clear what is really going on

    • redditron_2000_4@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Because being rich is measurable evidence that you are a better person than a poor. You have more ability to spend money, powering the economic engine, and capital to fund new ventures, either directly by starting businesses and employing people or indirectly through savings and investments.

      A rich person in jail objectively harms society.

      Maybe if we ate the rich and distributed their assets it would be an alternative?

      • 1984@lemmy.todayOP
        1·
        1 hour ago

        I like how you redefined what a “better person” is to mean more like “better company resource”.

        • redditron_2000_4@lemmy.world
          1·
          32 minutes ago

          If you are a company resource then you are a poor, and not an economic engine. True riches create companies and employ poors.