Book Review: Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks

It would be lovely to think that we, the modern people, know how to structure our societies so that the unlucky can have a decent life, but we still police, punish, and profile the poor. We see their misfortune as their fault. We cut their benefits when they cash them at the liquor store, which is the only place in the city where you can cash your check. We collect a massive amount of data on them, which will haunt them for the rest of their lives so that we can help their situation, but only if...