A citizen, any citizen has potential to be set to a criminal, as someone that is less desirable to have around, reduces profit by presence. Allowing this is not good, has shown precedent over time for being misused and reused as a way to reinforce power and people that already have money and power.
Prison and Jail workers are treated at the same level as other humans and workers in society, or not considered at same level? A society that shows throughput can be enabled and reinforced based upon paying other citizens less than what we deem as required for humans is consequential.
The idea might be that hard work is good, criminals get options they might otherwise not have. That said reinforcing in the minds of fellow citizens that they are less than in society, when society hasn’t been perfect before, isn’t perfect now, reinforces LTIs less than ideals on the common seems problematic in many regards.
Throughput gains based upon less oppression matters and are not ideally turned up. Someone that is worked to death in the Texas sun, is different than someone who has air conditioning, has proper nutrition and water, is paid sufficiently, and is treated with dignity and respect as a human being. If it factors into and facilitates the roads we drive on better to know we are reinforcing throughput that values and respects human life and dignity for all citizens.
Mindsets matter, factors into potential for less child labor conditions that might not always ideally be given oversight – border problems in Texas are real, oversight is less than ideal, reinforced less than ideally and that might lead to undocumented workers that might not have their humanity respected sufficiently.
Faster, more supported paths to citizenship might lead to greater levels of humanization less potential unknowns and that seems worthwhile to turn up.
My Tech Blog 