Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 19 hours 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-square84linkfedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up185arrow-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 · 19 hours agomessage-square84linkfedilinkfile-text
For example: private equity firms buying trailer parks and raising rents so high that people go bankrupt
minus-squareFredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 hours agoThe state has power because it’s backed by people and military force, not because of capital. Unless you believe that guns are something exclusively available to capitalism?
The state has power because it’s backed by people and military force, not because of capital. Unless you believe that guns are something exclusively available to capitalism?