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Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent?

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Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent?

Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    What does it mean “as left as they come”? When you’re interested in profiting from current slave labour and future concentration camps.

    Bad isn’t even a category here, you’re a wannabe fascist profiteer

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        yes, but I’m not investing in it. Get the difference?

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            you‘re conveniently omitting the concentration camps he wants to profit off

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        1. You don’t know where they live, or what their taxes fund or funded.

        2. Assuming they are American (which is what I’m assuming you’re assuming), the other option is prison.

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            Do you have brain worms?

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                Oh fuck, I haven’t heard a retort like that since the 11th grade. I wonder why

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        how are you posting from prison?

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    Short answer: Yes

    Long Answer: Good lord. Yes, it would be something a bad person would do.

    In effect, any gains you make will be blood money. Have fun with that on your conscience.

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    “listen. I don’t WANT Hitler to commit mass genocide. But I am going to fund the company of the gas chambers he plans to use. Because I benefit from it”.

    It’s not a one to one comparison but um. Yeah.

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    Yes

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    “As left as they come”.

    Doubt.

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    I mean you’re straight up buying shares in plantations so yes.

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    Yes lmao

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    Yes.

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    Yes. Regardless of the second part. Don’t invest in private prisons, even if it’s sums that would seem inconsequential to the industry as a whole.

    Edit:If it’s invest in, in the sense of, buy the stock of, I’d still say yes. It still contributes to the success of the industry, even if just minuscully so.

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    @Adderbox76@lemmy.ca yes

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      Thought so. Just making sure.

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    Don’t do it, friend.

    The better investment generally is to invest in index funds anyways, which makes your hands at least a little bit cleaner.

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    Apparently the left stops somewhere about right of centre - what a quaint political system the US has.

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    Short freedom

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    Do you remember the part in Schindler’s list where his factory’s weapons and ammo were all out of spec and couldn’t be used?

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    In theory if you could use any profits to make counter-investments or buy enough stock to be able to influence them to move in a different direction then your strategy might be viable, but unless you literally just buy 1 share to be able to harass them at stockholder meetings then in all likelihood your money is doing more harm than good.

    Best to just straight up invest in organizations that are effective in stopping these things and influencing policy against them.

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