• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    Only so much outsourcing you can do for trade work. Indians living in India can’t exactly fix your pipes remotely.

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      You know. After declaring a teacher shortage, they imported teachers from Mexico. They could import plumbers, carpenters, or a lot of people that aren’t computer savvy. They need them for the corporate owned housing.

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          Oh it won’t be long till those kept in ICE concentration camps start being used as slave labor

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            I dunno I don’t really foresee armies of ICE laborers being let out of detention to come fix your HVAC…to arrive more back at the point.

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                With all due respect, which I have no idea what amount that is, this is completely absurd. Most trade work is just not being outsourced because it has to be done locally and that they have a vocational program in a jail somewhere doesn’t prove anything.

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                  It’s fine if you don’t, but you’ll find yourself surprised more than a few times in the next few years with that attitude. The point I was trying to make with the article is they state that there’s a 43% lower odds someone doesn’t return to prison, which means that there’s still high chance that when they return to prison, and now they are now enslaved skilled labor. Do you think that the lost investment of reincarcerated workers by the companies will go unnoticed and unpursued? With automation of the industry, the required skill floor is dropping, meaning it will be even easier to train new labor. I hope I don’t need to explain that slave labor exists through the current prison system.

                  No, you don’t need hoardes for a payoff, just enough to push a profit.

                  Am I making sense now?

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                    I’m sorry but the idea that they’re going to use ICE captives to replace your plumber remains ridiculous. I see very few people using such a service if it were even offered, and certainly not enough people would use it to make getting into the trades not worth it.