Is There a Lot of Speculation Attached to Time?

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The idea that you lock up people and extract time, even though there's the appearance of a kind of non productivity, is counter intuitive. The police then speculate on what they can do to build their section of the budget. And indeed, what we see in terms of mission absorption and mission imitation are agencies whose job it is to provide the basic goods of life incorporate into their mission policing, exclusion and punishment.

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