[Real] Stop being poor, poors!

https://lemmy.world/post/35296333

Red states learning or will be learning a lesson about this real quick when they can’t find the slave wage labor to pick their crops because they deported imprisoned them.
They’ll just use prisoners at that point.
Prisoners are not skilled agricultural workers.

Oh, you don’t have to be skilled for anything for certain agricultural tasks. Any idiot can take a hoe, walk a field, and chop out a weed. Rinse & repeat thousands of times over thousands of acres.

The only question is, can you trust that idiot with giving him a hoe that could also work halfway decent as a weapon?

Other possible non-skilled ag tasks could include picking fruit/vegetables, milking cows/goats, feeding animals, cleaning animal pens, working with bales…idk there’s just a lot of things they can do with very little skill or experience. Lots of menial tasks.

Walking beanfields & weeding would probably be simplest, and very beneficial to the farmer & the prisoner (exercise, fresh air, sunshine, no real threats from animals).

Other possible non-skilled ag tasks could include picking fruit/vegetables, milking cows/goats, feeding animals, cleaning animal pens, working with bales…idk there’s just a lot of things they can do with very little skill or experience. Lots of menial tasks.

For many crops, picking fruit, for example, is an immensely skill-oriented task in order to do it fast enough to be profitable.

Prisoners in the US are effectively slaves also I thought?
Depends on the state. Some states allow for forced prison labor. Most ‘only’ allow for ‘voluntary’ and underpaid prison labor. California, the largest state by population, still allows for forced prison labor.