Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agoYou’ve been tasked with defining a new area of criminal law called “economic and financial violence,” and creating laws to prevent it. What actions would you try to criminalize?message-squaremessage-square96linkfedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1107arrow-down1message-squareYou’ve been tasked with defining a new area of criminal law called “economic and financial violence,” and creating laws to prevent it. What actions would you try to criminalize?Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square96linkfedilinkfile-text
For example: private equity firms buying trailer parks and raising rents so high that people go bankrupt
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoso you’re advocating for a violent overthrow of both state and capital by the citizens?
minus-squaresculptor0725@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoYes, the state and capital do endless violence upon the poor and underprivileged and it will take some degree of violence to shift from taking that to defending ourselves from it.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agocool. as long as we both agree that’s the only option available.
so you’re advocating for a violent overthrow of both state and capital by the citizens?
Yes, the state and capital do endless violence upon the poor and underprivileged and it will take some degree of violence to shift from taking that to defending ourselves from it.
cool. as long as we both agree that’s the only option available.