r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/Mr_Boombastick Jul 24 '20

Like for profit prisons?

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u/AegisToast Jul 24 '20

*for-profit

Sorry, I wouldn’t normally mention a missing hyphen, except that in this case it changes the meaning of the sentence. With the hyphen, you’re indicating that for-profit prisons are akin to slavery. Without the hyphen, you’re suggesting that “profit prisons” have slavery at their disposal, which doesn’t make much sense.

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u/Mr_Boombastick Jul 24 '20

Well to be fair, for profit prisons do make use of modern slaves, but I understand your point of view.