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Re:Inside North Korea's Forced Labor Program by el_benhameen on Sunday February 25, 2024 @07:13PM (#39506359)
Giving the state financial incentives to convict and imprison people has some pretty obvious possible second-order effects. You can see them all over the world, from the growth of for-profit prisons in the US to forced labor in Xinjiang. Once the state or a state-associated entity profits from convictions, they have all the reason in the world to increase the rate of convictions.
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Re:Inside North Korea's Forced Labor Program by infotainment on Sunday February 25, 2024 @07:43PM (#39506517)
Yup, it's always the second order effects that will get you in these criminal justice discussions. The idea seems great until you think it fully through.
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Re:Inside North Korea's Forced Labor Program by radicaldreamer on Sunday February 25, 2024 @07:18PM (#39506388)
Peeled garlic is almost an entirely prison labor driven industry in China and is exported all over the world
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Re:Inside North Korea's Forced Labor Program by powerapple on Monday February 26, 2024 @02:14AM (#39508397)
Damn. I didn't know that. Chinese people will never buy peeled garlic.

I once saw a machine to peel garlic, basically roll garlics in a container and the skins will come off automatically. I wonder if it can works out cheaper and kill this industry.

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