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Re:Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market by hjanssen on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:37PM (#34179042)
This does ignore the damage done to the free market though. Every job that a prison inmate takes up, is a job that could be taken by a non-criminal and which would pay for at least federal minimum wage.

I'd call the difference of prison wage and the minimum wage lost money.

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Re:Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market by naasking on Friday December 30, 2022 @09:00AM (#34185031)
I agree there are externalities to consider for a proper proposal, my purpose here was only to argue that compelled labour without minimum wage compensation isn't intrinsically wrong, it depends on the specific implementation.
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