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Re:National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and ... by tyingq on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @08:17PM (#17815056)
The "suck" might please puritanical values. However, it doesn't encourage inmates to get on a better path. It just churns out bitter unemployable people with high rates of recidivism.
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Re:National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and ... by twblalock on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:49AM (#17816389)
The inmate who posted his story seems to think the "suck" has value.
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Re:National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and ... by sgift on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:20AM (#17816965)
We have no way to check if they were actually an inmate or just a sock puppet for their political position. Even then, they never experienced the alternative, so they don't have any more information than we do. A classic "alternative history" problem.
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Re:National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and ... by Chris2048 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:54PM (#17820072)
We haven't experienced an alternate-history version of America without slavery, so does that mean we don't have any information on whether it was bad or not?
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