Why life isn't ‘Fair’
I don't know anyone who doesn't know that "life isn't 'fair'."
But, few - if any - ever ask WHY?
There are more than 2 million inmates serving time in the United States, up from 744,000 in 1985. America has the world's highest incarceration rate, and the revolving door helps keep those prisons packed: A 2002 study by the Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 52 percent of released convicts were back in jail within three years.
"All of these things are terrible, BUT THEY are GOOD for BUSINESS," says Martin Roenigk, CEO of CompuDyne, a security software and hardware provider to the corrections and homeland security markets.
This is a COLOSSAL conflict of interest and it's at the HEART of all this darkness - if there was NO way to PROFIT from the prison system it would shrink almost overnight.
State prison systems spend more than $30 billion annually, and the Bureau of Prisons budgeted $5 billion for just 182,000 federal inmates this year. That translates into plenty of work for companies looking to crack the prison market.
That's like paying each inmate $27,472.53 per year!
To put that in perspective - that's more than twice what someone making $6/hr (above minimum wage) would earn in a year if he worked 40hrs/wk, with NO paid vacations.
How many 'inmates' do you think had access to jobs that paid that kind of salary BEFORE they were thrown in prison???
Probably, close to NONE.
Not that inmates get a salary - most work for free. Most of the budget is PROFIT reserved for those ON TOP who EXPLOIT the system to the MAX.
"Our core business touches so many things - security, medicine, education, food service, maintenance, technology - that it presents ["a unique opportunity"] for any number of vendors to do business with us," says Irving Lingo, CFO at Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison operator in the country, with 65 facilities.
CompuDyne broke into the market in the mid-'90s, when the Annapolis, Md., company was just a $20 million outfit, by purchasing two prison security businesses. The company integrated their electronic and hardware security products - lockdown control and perimeter alert systems, closed-circuit television, blast-proof doors, and bullet-resistant windows.
Since then CompuDyne has ridden the prison market expansion and anticipates $60 million in prison-related sales this year on overall company revenue of $140 million. CompuDyne's latest product, MaxWall, is a modular, prefab prison cell (think high-security cubicle).
What an apt analogy.
MaxWall can be dropped quickly into an existing building to accommodate a growing inmate population or serve as a building block for new prison construction.With 2-inch hollow steel walls, the cells feature built-in lighting, beds, and plumbing.
OMG! How many homeless people on the streets of our cities would rob, cheat or kill to have one of those???
Wait - THEY DO! BINGO!
What a great way to increase the prison population - make life SO UNFAIR for those on the outside that they lash out at anyone and everyone that they see NOT KNOWING WHO TO BLAME.
MaxWall, which typically sells for $14,000 to $18,000, is shipped like an erector set and stitch-welded together onsite. The cells can save 10 square feet of space each over conventional cell construction techniques, allowing prisons to accommodate more inmates.
That's particularly important to prison administrators as they grapple with overcrowding and limited budgets. For example, California recently declared its prison system in a state of emergency, in large part because of a lack of cells. The feds, meanwhile, expect the Bureau of Prisons to be about 30,000 beds short by 2011.
That certainly bodes well for MaxWall sales. The company has installed 4,500 cells since December 2002 and has contracts to triple that number in the next year alone. "We expect unchecked growth for the next two or three years," says CompuDyne executive Gary Mangus.
So, you see - there IS a very good reason why "Life isn't 'Fair'" - because those who make the RULES make sure that it STAYS that way.
Unfortunately, while our prison 'system' expands exponentially each year, the REAL criminals - those who hold the MOST contempt for everyone else who inhabits this planet, young and old - ROAM FREE.
That really puts it into perspective. Somebody profits on literally every little last thing. Somebody somewhere makes money on every single official activity there is. Then they get enough money to influence certain people in government, laws get passed, regulations come into existence, something gets criminalized, and VOILA business is booming where once it was only humming along nicely.
I guess life really is just one huge scam. Born into a world where a tiny minority control everything through the banks and through financial schemes. No wonder we sometimes feel like that Pink Floyd song "Welcome to the Machine". The machine of global dominance by the few.
Life is the will of God. God never wills unfairness. We need to view things in their perspectives.
Apple. it has iron. iron has no taste but when u view it within the context of an apple it contributes to the taste which is perfect.
Tyrant. He is no tyrant untill people around him succumb to his evil.
"Tyrant. He is no tyrant untill people around him succumb to his evil."
That's precisely my point - Life is not unfair - people ARE.
So, it's not some vague unstoppable condition created by GOD - it's a matter of choice.
People ALLOW this unfairness to continue by not thinking critically about how all this came about and then having the courage to fight the people behind it.
The whole criminal justice system in the modern world is totally designed to keep people in power and to make money and those cought up within it controlled serving as 'examples' to others who may hit skid row.
see http://www.geocities.com/islam2jannat/ahmed.htm
The prisons, courts, lawyers all allow money to be spent to build a police state. If you find gainful employement does not serve and lead to freedom and you feel like rebelling...the Prison system keeps you in place, so you continue to follow the rules and live like a slave.