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The US prison system will probably be the first way somebody fulfills the one million jobs RFS https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#million https://www.ycombinator.
by hackermailman 8y ago
The US prison system will probably be the first way somebody fulfills the one million jobs RFS https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#million https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#million
Find a way to sell a service the prisoners can learn to do through apprenticing with experienced prisoners (b2b sales, data analysis, ect), find a way to get companies to contract your inmates, find a way to proof it from bad inmates making politicians look embarassed by limiting the scope of the service to something they can't use for crime, find a way to get prisoners to agree by paying them the state min wage,find a way to get prison workers and public to agree by making it as non disruptive to set up as possible, hire former inmates who worked for you to manage the on site operations, counter 'this is slavery' criticism by hiring prisoners themselves to be your company PR. Prisoners can pay off their conviction fines and at the same time save money for release to land soft. Pitch this to YC and get funding to conduct some kind of data gathering to guage what politicians and public would be comfortable with (types of offenses permitted to work, industries that are least adversarial to this model so willing to work with your prisoners, ect).