People in this thread are hell bent on the excuse that prisoners have it easy as they dont pay for housing or food while majority of people here easily manage to pay for the basics and easily have enough time to workout and read. Its such lazy cope. Stop pretending like you have it harder than a prisoner its cringe.

And before some sap comes in and tells me they work 16hrs in the mines and are starving and disabled with no healthcare and no home. Ok you are the exception but most people here have a job, buy food and have free time. Enough to do some bodyweight exercises and read a book.

I've done time. Getting jacked and reading books is like... 75% of what you do...

God I read so many books. It was a fucking rainbow. I read everything from atlas shrugged and tolstoy to one piece and the new 52.

Getting jacked and reading old books are examples of hobbies. If these sound strange and foreign to you, you should look into them!

Hobbies are activities that you do because you want to, not because you are forced to. (Pause for fellow Americans to catch their breath...) Hobbies have the potential to help you enjoy life, to have something to look forward to, get excited about, and hopefully even improve yourself or broaden your horizons in some way.

You don't have to make money at it. You don't have to be "efficient" at it. You don't even have to be any good! But if it's something you care about, there's a strong chance you'll end up pretty good at it.

My example is along the lines of the meme of the linkedin profile that ends ... -> Senior Architect at Microsoft -> Goose farmer.

I'm a middle aged computer nerd software engineer, typing this in LibreWolf on Linux. 100% on-brand Lemmy user, lol. But I am a science & nature nerd first, and I have a distinct memory of a divide in my high school science classes: I gravitated towards physics and especially electronics and mechanical design, and I really disliked studying chemistry. My chemistry teacher was awesome and shared lots of college stories to prepare us, and that left me notably terrified of organic chemistry on top of the general dislike.

So it might not be a surprise to find that I am into carpentry, woodworking, and home automation, given some of my past. And my love of animals has led to lots of pets, including a pond in the back yard. The surprise? I kinda fucking love organic chemistry as a hobby! What is your Oxidation-Reduction Potential, babyyy?

Plato-maxxing

Men in literal prison tend to have more time on their hands than people with jobs.

Men in literal prisons are provided food, housing and healthcare.

Yes, but men in literal prison don't have to worry about neither rent nor mortgage.

Ironically, arguably not being in prison prevents them from doing that. When your basic needs are taken care of (and assuming you aren't in a state which still allows mandatory prison labor), you have a lot more latitude for choosing how to spend your time.

In the US at least prisoners do not really have a choice of reading material. Men in prison get jacked and read what they can get their hands on which is not necessarily what they might want to read. This is a good DB. Prisoners might also have to pay to read if it’s digital. I would personally contend that it’s harder to read in jail than prison but I don’t have a good study for that. More people go through jail than prison so the ability to read is much lower overall.

The rest of the world might treat prisoners a little more like human beings so I don’t know if this works outside of the US.

sentences that smell like privilege

Non stop work and exhaustion that comes with it in order to have a place to live is a barrier so bad take.

They didn't say anyone was preventing them from doing this, they just expressed a desire. I don't understand why you would go on the offensive for such a tame post, even if it is a bit cringe.

Don't you have to do slavery levels of hard labor in prison tbf? Whole point of the private prison industry, at least in the US.

I don't know what INT is but gzzz on 99 strength. Did you get your skill cape?

Tbh, your own body can prevent you from doing the former.