keccers
@keccers.eth
Learning about that El Salvador jail USA is sending people to and confused - is it viewed as too merciful just to kill these people? Not to mention executions would be the cost effective choice Imagine having to eat rice and beans with your hands for decades. At that point just put me down like a dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Confinement_Center
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shazow
@shazow.eth
My bet is the US pivots more toward prison labour to onshore manufacturing. Maybe that's the threat: Make shoes and shirts for pennies or go to El Salvador.
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keccers
@keccers.eth
Oh that’s interesting idea I wonder what the jobs are that can be done that way and how hard the training is relative to other prison jobs like wildfire fighting Prisoners are not making semis. But maybe Nikes
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Prison labour is already quite popular in private prisons. Just a matter of scaling it. Your very own planned economy in a (bunch of) box(es). https://warpcast.com/shazow.eth/0x795a419f
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keccers
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Tangential but I would say to the point of your OP At the point of peak industrial capacity in USA CEO pay was 20x the worker. There were both structural and ideological reasons for this. Capital was held to a stakeholder mentality and there was a sense we were truly all in this together Today, CEO pay is 300x the worker. We do not pay labor well enough for the desired work ethic My sense is that you could get the same energy at 5x 1950s but 1/2 today so 150x pay
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Yea I do agree that the pay gap (and generally being unwilling to pay labour wages the market is signaling) is creating a ton of friction. Also my fav onscure take: poor transit and traffict is substantially contributing to labour costs. I was talking to a landscaper a few years ago and he was lamenting how he used to be able to service 3-5 clients every day, whereas now it takes him so long to get around that he can only do 1 or 2 each day. He still has to pay the same bills, so he has to charge more per client.
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