Predicaments of Abundance: the manifest injustice of make-work criminal justice

On December 31 2022 Congressman Thomas Massie (MIT alum) tweeted, "If you were in Congress, what would your priorities be for 2023?"

I submitted this response thread about one of the Predicaments of Abundance: I propose the United States' relative prosperity has enabled it to be the most effective crime-solving and crime-punishing country on Earth, but that we're not any better off for our tremendous expenditures on "Criminal Justice". I don't have any meaningful engagement on the Twitter, so it only got a few views.

One of the people mentioned in this thread is my passenger who can't keep himself from screwing up his own life. This one could have be any of you. I think DevOps was his specialty, before he fell into the black hole of Criminal Justice. I drafted an Ask HN submission, then I saw that I recently mentioned him in a comment that got a few upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34237125 67