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You’ve been tasked with defining a new area of criminal law called “economic and financial violence,” and creating laws to prevent it. What actions would you try to criminalize? (lemmy.world)
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For example: private equity firms buying trailer parks and raising rents so high that people go bankrupt

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The state has power because it's backed by people and military force, not because of capital. Unless you believe that guns are something exclusively available to capitalism?

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