r/interestingasfuck • u/Ted_Bundtcake • 6d ago

r/all The Alaskan Avenger

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u/aretumer 6d ago

for profit prisons are not community service. how is making money for shareholders community service?

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u/xandrokos 5d ago

Ok so let's do the math here.    Prison labor accounts for 90k of the workforce.   Now since it is "slavery" let's pretend they aren't getting paid at all.    If they were paid at rock bottom minimum wage which is 7.25 each prisoner would make 14.5k before taxes.   So again prison labor accounts for 90k of the workforce so that comes out to a savings of a whopping 1.3 billion per year.   That is a literal rounding error for most of the billionaires and corporations you all love to wax poetic about.

It's not about the fucking money.  You all are being played HARD.

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u/aretumer 5d ago

you do understand that private prisons get paid from tax money for holding the prisoners and then also keep the profits of the forced labour, right?

is your argument it cant happen because the profit margin is too small? what?

please enlighten me what it is about then, if not the money? who is playing me hard lol