The US is becoming a hollow state in which oligarchic factions wield the machinery of government to funnel money into their coffers via bloated military projects, mass incarceration in private prisons, regulatory capture, etc. Politics is pure kayfabe, team oligarch vs team state
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its both though. the population growth rate does reflect a quadratic (at minimum) growth curve so conviction rate and sentencing policies interact to cause this. the decision to criminalize common small scale drug use is the major factor.
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In overall incarceration rates, yes, but as we've discussed the two are working in tandem. If sentences weren't so harsh tough drug laws wouldn't be so devastating, if drug laws were looser long sentences for small scale drug activity would be much less common.
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Tangent: If we changed the drug laws to decriminalize possession of less than a very large amount of marijuana, are we really just creating a marijuana anti-trust scheme?
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in that small scale operations will be legally barred from merging into a large scale company? yeah, I guess. otoh why not legalize it and create an export industry (like with wine and spirits)?
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I'm okay with that. The thought just struck me funny. The idea that drug cartels are accidentally created government monopolies is not a new one. I just turned it around. :)
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