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Re:National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and ... by celim307 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @04:32PM (#17813496)
Not to mention, who can compete with a jail offering labor for 1$ an hour? It's unfair to both the prisoners and anyone else in the manual labor business
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Re:National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and ... by sjwright on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:19PM (#17813944)
I doubt their labor is costing clients $1. The prison is certainly charging a lot more than that and pocketing the difference.
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Re:National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and ... by sdenton4 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:33PM (#17814031)
It's the same effect. If you cut labor costs by a factor of ten (or more), you can undercut the competition easily and pocket the difference. Hence, anti-competitive.
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