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Turns out it’s easy to make cheap solar cells if you have access to unlimited free labor from Chinese prison camps.

• tppiotrowski 5y ago
  Assuming the people are there justly for committing a crime and not being convicted just to provide free labor doesn't it make sense to have these people do something instead of sitting all day in a cage?
  • jwolfe 5y ago
    Your assumption is doing most of the work here. In my opinion, anything that creates a profit motive for imprisonment and recidivism is an incentive recipe for disaster. So even if justly incarcerated I would probably say no? But regardless, I don't think assuming just incarceration in China is a great idea. e.g. [0], "Forced Labor The PRC government has pressured large numbers of Uyghurs, including former detainees, into accepting employment in the formal workforce, particularly in the textile, apparel, agricultural, consumer electronics, and other labor-intensive industries, in Xinjiang and other provinces. Uyghurs who refuse to accept such employment may be threatened with detention. Some factories utilizing Uyghur labor reportedly are tied to global supply chains. Factory employment often involves heavy surveillance and political indoctrination of Uyghurs." [0] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10281 https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10281
  • beervirus 5y ago
    Crimes like saying something unflattering about the communist party? Or crimes like being an Uyghur?