Oh yeah, take a look, this where this is all heading, this is the future of work in the US.
Convict or guard.
How can a competing business possibly survive when it has to compete with labor rates of
sixty cents a day.
And people have the nerve to scoff at my prison analogy.
Of course any business could become profitable when you have the power of the state to come along and Shanghai labor whenever needed.
Is Whole Foods "Prison Tilapia" Good for American Aquaculture?
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"I guess I am of two minds on this," he wrote. "On the one hand, the program seems to be a good example of giving skills to the inmates that they could use for employment when they are released from prison. That it 'pays for itself' is an added bonus, in that no extra public funds are being used in the rehabilitation program.
"But while this may be the case, I do worry about the bigger picture. It does give a somewhat unfair advantage to either the prison system or the fish producers that use the prison to process the fish. This is particularly important in this industry, since (seemingly) the cost of imported fish is so much lower because of some combination of lower labor costs and less 'stringent' production quality. That is, the only way that local producers make a profit is by using a labor source that effectively is on a similar wage scale as foreign producers."
Questions about the presence of prison-run fish farms in the marketplace aside, what effect might the Colorado DOC's aquaculture program have on ex-prisoners looking for work once they get out?
"Furthermore (and maybe more importantly)," Bender said, "when these prisoners are released, they may find that their skills are not valued (at least locally) since the local fish producers will continue using the cheaper prison labor."
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