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https://www.resetera.com/threads/america-is-an-unforgiving-country-mistakes-of-any-kind-financial-educational-criminal-etc-are-never-forgiven.750220/

As I'm taking care of stuff for my apartment, I just had a little bit of a shower thought, if you will. There are so many systems in this country set up punish mistakes of any kind really harshly, to the point to where certain mistakes can set your life back significantly.

Take the criminal justice system. As we all know, every layer of criminal justice in America is set to institutionalize entire demographics of people. From base level cops, to the highest court in the land, everything operates on the expectation of "once a criminal, always a criminal" and refuses to change a system that does nothing more than reinforce itself through recidivism. At the state level, you're basically at the mercy of whatever jurisdiction you live in as you whether or not a felon has a chance to re-enter society successfully. Most states - especially the hard red ones - will remove basic rights from ex-felons who have served their time & paid whatever restitutions they were ordered to. And with most, if not all of these states requiring that felony history always follows the ex-felon, a lot of people who get caught up in the criminal justice system face a significantly difficult time trying to rebuild their lives in a way that keeps them from reoffending. Because if you live in a state in which employers can actively block you forever from employment, if they so choose, how will you be able to survive outside of hoping to utilize the occasional goodwill of others or falling back into criminality?

Then there's the credit system. The older I get, the more I realize our credit system is just good ol American discrimination that hides behind arbitrary numbers. I say discrimination because there's evidence that minorities are negatively affected by the credit system as it pertains to the availability of credit. But in the event you are allowed credit of some sort... God fucking help you, if you make a mistake.

It doesn't matter the actual circumstances of why people default on whatever credit they have. An unseen medical expense? Sudden loss of employment? An entire public health emergency? Doesn't matter. If you're behind for long enough to have whatever you've been loaned repossessed or have your wages garnished, you're absolutely fucked for the next several years. Doesn't matter if you regain that stability; you essentially are left with the prospect of bankruptcy just to stop the bleeding or having to save up unreasonable amounts of money to be trusted with credit again, if you want to buy a house or car. And to make matters worse, the SCOTUS ruling on college loan debt forgiveness basically send a message that our federal government isn't allowed to relieve regular Americans from the burden of debt... even if it's debt taken on in the name of better career & life prospects. Of course, that same restriction doesn't apply if, say, major corporations need a financial bailout from their failures borne of catastrophic-level negligence at best, active criminality at worse.

I guess America just enjoys being a country that embraces aggressively punishing those who find themselves at the bottom of society in one way or another.

Anyways... I'm just frustrated. Could be a grass greener kinda thing, but I just can't help but feel other first-world countries don't function this way. Maybe some of y'all who live outside of America could provide some perspective?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-the-f___-is-bamco-harada-thinking.750262/#post-110026396

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