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A comment on Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail. Parent comment
Perverse incentives. If a company's profit is linked to higher incarceration, they are incentivized to make the problem worse, not better.
This doesn't make all non-profits magical paragons of virtue, or all for-profits evil. It is simply an indicator.
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Perverse incentives. If a company's profit is linked to higher incarceration, they are incentivized to make the problem worse, not better.
This doesn't make all non-profits magical paragons of virtue, or all for-profits evil. It is simply an indicator.