that's the whole idea, yes
people lose their jobs, their health care, and their homes, and then, once they get arrested for sleeping rough or nonpayment of tickets, they become slave labor for prison jobs.
A real mystery that we have soooo much money to build prisons, bottomless funds really, but none whatsoever for shelters or affordable housing. A real thinker π§
Wonder if they'll be unskilled slave labor, or whether people who know how to program, for example, but had a bad series of catastrophes, will become slave labor programmers for corporations.
Slave labor accountants. Slave labor proofreaders. Slave labor translators.