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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, August 16, 2019

An Underlying Story

Jeffrey Epstein's death remains a mystery.  At the very least, it exposes as aspect of American "justice" that activists have been decrying for years.  We have created an economic system that rewards prisons.  This bleeds over into state run facilities.  Prison guard is a job that you can get without a college degree, but because so many applicants exist, wages are low and hours are long. The guards at Epstein's jail were overworked and asleep at the switch.  Maybe something truly nefarious happened, but I'm inclined to believe Epstein killed himself.  Prison isn't nice to pedophiles.

Dig a little deeper and we see a story about a system that requires bodies to keep facilities full and guards employed.  As prison populations shrink (although they remain too large), we will see economic ramifications that I don't think we've examined fully.

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