The spending on police is the domestic version of this. See
Public Safety Is Not a Police Problem. It’s a Political Economy Problem.
How structural insecurity and capitalist waste turn public safety into an expensive system of crisis management instead of prevention
Excerpt: "We’re told the U.S. has a 'crime' problem, but most of what gets policed is just poverty in motion. If you actually removed the economic pressure producing survival crime, you wouldn’t need half the policing apparatus we currently fund. The real question isn’t how to police better—it’s why we’ve built a society that manufactures instability and then pays billions to contain it.
"The United States treats policing like a technical issue: more funding, better training, smarter deployment, new tech. But that’s like treating a flooded house by buying better mops.
"The real driver of 'crime' in the U.S. is not individual pathology—it is structural insecurity produced by the economic system itself. When people are priced out of housing, buried in medical debt, and trapped in precarious labor markets, survival begins to reorganize itself outside formal legality. What gets labeled 'crime' is often just the informal survival logic of a stressed society."
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