Re: Jennifer Stone's show

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

I guess we should be happy that they don't propose spending that money on
just shipping the homeless to another state.

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 07:42:43 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > On Tue, 9 Apr 2019, Robert wrote:
 >  > This made me thing of why would someone bother owning a human when they
 >  > could rent them as a day laborer.  Sort of like taking Uber instead of
 >  > owning a car, or renting an apartment instead of owning a home, or
 >  > borrowing a power tool rather than owning it.
 >  > 
 >  > Then I read that slave owners did rent out their slaves for a fee.
 >  > 
 >  > What's interesting is that, in general, it was much more difficult for
 >  > slaves to escape during these rentals simply because of their complexion.
 >  > It made me realize that skin color can be used as an easy attribute for
 >  > people to be targetted -- sort of like being chipped, but even before
 >  > there were electronics.  (I guess these days they use the word
 >  > "profiling".)  In other words, slavery in the United States had to be
 >  > race-based in order for it to be so effective.
 >  > 
 >  > (I wonder if they branded white indentured servants?  Brands and tattoos
 >  > might be easier to cover up.)
 > 
 > probably not, since they were "temps"
 > 
 > https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/10/how-much-would-it-cost-to-house-the-bay-areas-homeless-try-12-7-billion/