THE COST OF DESPERATION TO SOCIETY
I asked awhile back for a good solid accounting of The Cost of Desperation to society in relativity to the cost of furnishing the basic needs and no one responded. So here I have compiled a small fragment of the various costs to society that arise due to Desperation. These are costs everyone in society has already been paying every year cumulatively.
Any intelligent person should be able to analyze that the cost of Desperation in a single year and this should be enough to make anyone sit for a second and ponder : "What Can Be Done To Heal Society In A Fundamental and Intrinsic Way?"
THE COST OF DESPERATION TO SOCIETY
The legal System, the Injustice System as I call it, requires a constantly escalating amount of force in order to have the power to punitively punish the breaking of various laws. If there is a law broken then it requires “enforcement” of that law so there can be prosecution.
Thus enters "The Law Enforcement Officer", who arrives armed with weapons and permission to use deadly force in order to subject the offender to punishment. So we have the least of offenses being enforced by people who can maim, injure, imprison, and even kill someone who resists.
According to this website : https://killedbypolice.net/
602 people have been killed by police so far this year in 2019.
Complete list of names for this year : https://killedbypolice.net/kbp2019/
So in the process of needfully or needlessly enforcing The Law there is this escalation of the use of force and a huge payload of dead bodies which appears inevitable in this sort of injustice system.
Somehow or other we need to heal the Legal System so that it can no longer perpetuate injustice as justice. There has to be a better way of dealing with people in society who refuse to act righteously, then depriving them of human rights at gun point, shoving them into a cell, forcing them to eat sub standard food, subjecting people to gang style violence in prison, subjecting them to the threat of rape at the hands of other prisoners, exploiting them for labor and forcing them to associate with the rest of the “criminal” elements of society so that they end up more criminally connected after the whole experience, and then deny them employment upon release because of the dirty mark on their record.
2.3 MILLION PEOPLE INCARCERATED as of 2018.
Many people are enslaved for less than a dollar an hour in the Prison Industrial Complex.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/
https://smartasset.com/mortgage/the-economics-of-the-american-prison-system
The average cost of incarcerating an American prisoner varies from state to state. Some states, like Indiana have managed to keep prices low at around $14,000 per inmate. While states like New York pay around $60,000 to keep its citizens behind bars. The costs of running the American prison system is expensive and has become increasingly so despite public opposition.
According to a 2012 Vera Institute of Justice study, the number of those incarcerated has increased by over 700% over the last four decades. The cost to the taxpayer? $39 billion.
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The Police cost the taxpayers on an average $56,000 each a year. Some as much as 70k each.
There are 17,985 U.S. police agencies in the United States which include County Sheriff, City and State Police Departments, and Federal Law Enforcement Agencies.
In 2008, there were about 103,000 federal agents (not counting federal prison guards) and 57,000 full-time officers in special state and local agencies. Together with general purpose police, there were 865,000 full-time sworn law enforcement officers at all levels of government in 2008.
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So lets assume that the number of agents has not changed from then till now and each one gets paid 56k a year on average and run the math
865,000 x 56,000 = $48,440,000,000… or about $48.5 billion dollars a year paid by the taxpayers.
16,214 reported murder and non-negligent manslaughter cases in the U.S. in 2018.
In 2018, total 2,052,409 cases of larceny-theft were valued at over 200 U.S. dollars.
And someone could run the math to figure out how much “criminal acts” were reported as happening since 1960.
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
So what is behind all this “criminality”? Is it just that human beings are terrible creatures that do terrible things to one another just out of the blackness of their hearts? There certainly might be some of that, but what I imagine is that 99% of these “criminal acts” are a result of people existing in desperate circumstances. When people have everything they need they tend to live and let live and they tend to become protective of their families and homes and they tend to be reasonable people.
There are plenty of ideological lines that cause conflicts, and angry arrogant people do like to fight, and many people are envious and covetous and petty. There will always be thefts and beatings and murders and rapes no matter how diligent we are in providing for society, but it is my belief that the phenomenons could be substantially reduced in their magnitude by eliminating basic need from society.
The illegalization of alcohol (back in the day) and now drugs in this modern day, creates organized crime. When things are illegal they are expensive and so there ends up a mafia business that arises to capitalize on the new cash cow. The only thing that makes most illegal drugs worth trafficking in for the traffickers is that the illegal status of the substance makes it worth so much money.
Joe Rogan Experience #1250 - Johann Hari : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDpjvFn4wgM&list=PL4bvtUiQQZWgnkrU6RgKB6SwSU6a1dArV&index=2&t=1046s
Compound the general problems of this whole legal system with corruption and it all becomes so hypocritical that it’s barely tolerable. Look into the drug trafficking done by The CIA and The DEA themselves, it’s all well known recorded history at this point. Look into the subject of the long history of Police corruption, and we will realize that an honest cop is like a white crow… so rare as to almost not exist. Not that individual cops can’t be good people, its just that the backdrop of the corruption of the system itself makes the effort less than noble.
There have been 60,069,971 (and counting) abortions since 1973.
It is my hypothesis is that the majority of those abortions were the result of people feeling unable to bear the financial burden nor the psychic and emotional obligations of parenthood. Let us say that at least 80% of those abortions are causalities of the failings of the American financial system.
If people do not have the money to raise a child they simply do not feel like they have the capacity to become a parent. It’s very simple. If society wants less abortion it needs to learn how to furnish the framework for the providence of the basic necessities of life. It is also safe to say that for the most part people who feel confident enough to become parents do give birth to and raise their youths.
Never The Less the majority of those 60 million people who were never born were lives claimed by desperation as well.
Abortion is an inherently desperate act.
A new analysis from U.S. federal government actuaries say that Americans spent $3.65 trillion on health care in 2018, according to a report from Axios. The amount is larger than the GDPs of such countries as Brazil, the U.K., Mexico, Spain, and Canada.
The level of spending is by far the highest in the developed world, according to data from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development.
While spending is highest, the United States ranks 27th in the world for its levels of health care.
New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html
A recent Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors. Other reports claim the numbers to be as high as 440,000.
Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.
More than 600,000 patients underwent a treatment they didn't need, treatments that collectively cost an estimated $282 million.
More than a third of the money spent on the 47 tests or services went to unnecessary care.
3 in 4 annual cervical cancer screenings were performed on women who had adequate prior screenings – at a cost of $19 million.
About 85 percent of the lab tests to prep healthy patients for low-risk surgery were unnecessary — squandering about $86 million.
Needless annual heart tests on low-risk patients consumed $40 million.
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So what do I gather from all these figures?
It appears to me that Americans are paying unimaginable amounts for “services” that apparently are not much of a service. For all the money spent endeavoring to “Police” criminal actions the criminal acts have remained fairly constant. America spends more for healthcare than anyone else in the world and regardless this ends up killing a large percentage of the people who are “practiced on”.
http://thedataface.com/2018/01/public-health/american-homelessness
"According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), there were roughly 554,000 homeless people living somewhere in the United States on a given night last year. A total of 193,000 of those people were "unsheltered," meaning that they were living on the streets and had no access to emergency shelters, transitional housing, or Safe Havens. Despite a booming stock market and strong economic growth, a large swathe of America is still struggling to make ends meet."
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/16/us-drug-overdose-deaths-opioids-fentanyl-cdc
Drug overdoses killed more than 72,000 people in the United States last year – a new record driven by the deadly opioid epidemic, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control.
The CDC estimates that 72,287 people died from overdoses in 2017, an increase of about 10% from the year before.
A majority of the deaths – nearly 49,000 – was caused by opioids, according to the new data. And the biggest driver was the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl, which killed more than 29,000 people, followed by heroin and other drugs.
The rising overdose numbers make the drug epidemic more deadly than gun violence, car crashes or Aids, which have never killed as many people in a single year. It represents nearly 200 people dying from overdoses every day in 2017.
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And then add in the factor of polluted drinking water :
“As many as 63 million people — nearly a fifth of the United States — from rural central California to the boroughs of New York City, were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade, according to a News21 investigation of 680,000 water quality and monitoring violations from the Environmental Protection Agency.”
“The findings highlight how six decades of industrial dumping, farming pollution, and water plant and distribution pipe deterioration have taken a toll on local water systems”.
“The EPA estimates local water systems will need to invest $384 billion in the coming decades to keep water clean. The cost per person is more than twice as high in small communities as it is in large towns and cities.”
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“Tainted tap water isn’t just a problem in Flint, Michigan. In any given year from 1982 to 2015, somewhere between 9 million and 45 million Americans got their drinking water from a source that was in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act, according to a new study. Most at risk: people who live in rural, low-income areas.”
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-15/fed-we-trust-part-1
“$1 borrowed in 1913 can essentially be paid off with .03 cents today. Inflation has certainly benefited debtors.”
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At this point it appears to me that the sense of desperation in America in completely manufactured as a piece of propaganda and ingenious social engineering.
There is a general all around sense of futility, of struggle, of worry, sadness, depression, envy, jealousy, anger, sickness, and apathy that afflicts desperate people. I spent a lot of time “home free” experiencing what having nothing feels like. I spent time with the people who were living on the lowest levels in these most troubled places I visited. I spent time homeless in major megalithic cities like Phoenix Arizona, Denver Colorado, and a brief stint in San Francisco. I saw what the struggles of life had done to people, and what the struggles of life did to me.
We always wondered why the rich didn’t do more to help the poor. It seemed as if a stark contrast between the people who struggle so hard for so little on the bottom and the overlords at the top.
I always thought it would be awesome if there were places to sleep and more abundant food to eat and more opportunities to better myself.
I learned that living off the street will grind a person’s body and soul to dust. Society is not designed to cope with such a phenomenon.
There were various programs and a lot of help, don’t get me wrong. But it always seemed to be the very least society could do, plus the real help compassionate individuals offered.
Somehow or other the chain of command representing the oversight of The People in regards to The Government, The Law, The Education, The Medicine, The Financial System, and The Military has become frayed and broken.
These problems are truly megalithic, however there is also a megalithic number of people on hand to help solve it.
It’s crazy, the more I try to drain the puss from this infected wound that is the system, the more puss there is… the corruption has taken root deeper and deeper than the Doctor initially would have imagined. I keep squeezing the wound and I keep hoping we will drain out the corruption enough to even get a sense of healthy flesh beneath.