FantasticalEconomics , to random
@FantasticalEconomics@geekdom.social avatar

Many have seen the scrolling wealth visual to try to capture just how absurd inequality and billionaires are. This graphic from the same folks depicts the absurdity that is the system in the US.

Want to see how the incarceration of black men today compares to China's Uygher population or the worst year's of Soviet Russia? Then take a quick scroll down statistics lane that ends with some just, low-cost solutions.

https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/

tob , to random
@tob@hachyderm.io avatar

Just finished a terrific book (written by my brother) about in the United States.

Mass Incarceration Nation
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1009267558/

Lots of great insights, but my key takeaway was the emergence of the criminal legal system in the 1970s and how it has grown to dwarf the criminal justice system it spawned from.

There's been a broad cultural shift in how we think about the role of the , and in our society that we need to unwind.

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