• WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    I’ve been predicting this for a couple of years now.

    It goes hand-in-hand with prison privatization and the increased corporate use of prison slave labor. The goal is essentially to bring back Victorian workhouses while collecting kickbacks.

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        2 months ago

        And my parents have been predicting this for the last 40+ years.

        The US was always going to find any opportunity it could to bring back slave labour.

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        2 months ago

        I saw the other day non-permanent address, or shifting addresses can cause your bank to now close your account and send the balance to your last known address, reporting it to the feds whom then may just classify you as homeless.

        Not sure how those laws are supposed to work yet, let me know if you find out more, I’m curious

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          2 months ago

          Well I assume all the vanlifers I follow on YouTube probably have an addresses. I was thinking of the ones who don’t have YouTube channels and followers. Same with people who literally have jobs but live in their cars.

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        2 months ago

        Not at first.

        First they’ll come for the ones under bridges.

        Then the ones in tents.

        Then the ones with no fixed abode.

        Then the ones in homes that get deemed unlivable.