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The concept of bail has been around since 399 BC with Plato tried to get a bond for his friend Socrates. It's been a problem a long time. If you read the whitep
by tharwat 8y ago
The concept of bail has been around since 399 BC with Plato tried to get a bond for his friend Socrates. It's been a problem a long time. If you read the whitepaper, part of the platform is to do exactly what the big insurance companies backing bail bonding agencies, lobbyists and PACs are doing by making investing in similar efforts to derail the system. Calling out the big insurers profiting off bail.
What this platform does is match bail requests with people willing to make small contributions to helping to pay someone's bail. Knowing that if the bail is paid in full it's returned by the courts when the accused attends trial.
It would be the same as someone putting up a gofund me page. Except it happens much faster and it's already funded.
- moate 8y agoCool straw man. My thesis: Bail shouldn't exist, it creates a 2 tied system, and creating a platform, business, whatever, that exploits that system to make money isn't "being a super nice person who just wants to help" it's profiting off the prison industrial complex unless you spend all they money you made solely to reform the system. It sounds like they're trying to help. This doesn't mean they're not also making money by attaching themselves to the problem. The world is shades of gray. I'm sure the bail bondsmen sleep at night saying they're helping people get back to their families faster.