I am far from finished reading Debt (Graeber) but its grand historic thesis seems to be that capitalism requires violence, and the more free-market and unregulated that capitalist set of laws is, and more-capitalist, more ultra-capitalist the culture is, the more violent and open to slavery that region becomes.
Types of slavery like if every prisoner is able to be worked for-profit in for-profit prisons. Which creates a profit motive to simply convict, rather than reform a prisoner.
Types of violence like knowingly ignoring homelessness in favor of real estate bribes.
And you see this kind of attitude expressed a lot by conservative-minded people who will say things like "Well we dont give prisoners an xbox like they do in Norway" when what they're making fun of, the Halden system, has been shown to work.
For me, the Halden system works because Norway's broader government policies support poor people more-effectively than the Americans' do, so citizens leaving the prison system have a way to re-enter society..
Especially as America withdrew stable funding for child hunger programs recently, just as one example of poverty-causing conservatism, something progressive like the Halden system wouldn't work ...in America... because there's no effective safety net, and homelessness as a result of this conservative policy, is high because of American conservatism.
