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Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

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post #22

The larger fight continues, to treat people who have been to prison with dignity and respect.

Perhaps put fewer people in prison to start with

Perhaps build a social system so that people won’t have to resort to crime in order to survive and progress in life

Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

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post #31

This really bums me out. I was a convicted felon at 18 years old, poor, living on the street. It wasn't any government re-integration program that helped me, it was a random person I met in highschool. I worked my way through everything -> college -> jobs -> startups -> lucky windfalls -> owning my own company. I've immigrated to Europe (3 times in the last 10 years technically), beating the legal issues each time. A…

Emigration honestly is the most logical option for a felon. A few nations will accept local background checks in the immigration process, so if you move to a state where you don't have a record you can just get your police report from a place where your record is clean.

Another option is to go live in a Compact of Free Association nations such as Micronesia or Marshall Islands. US citizens are authorized to live and work there without a visa, so once you live overseas there for a few years you can immigrate to most other nations using the background check from your country of prior residence, which is now a country where you have a clear background.

Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

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Hi Richard, I'd like to donate towards retiring the debt you've personally guaranteed. How can I do this? Thanks for trying, it's more than most do. My genuine condolences you were unable to maintain traction due to the macro. (agree with 0des' sibling comment, hibernate the effort vs this being the death of it)

I'd be up for helping with this as well

Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

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post #25

Never heard of it, but sounds dangerous helping out rapists and murderers and such.

Perhaps, but unless you want a permanent under class of people unable to find real employment, there needs to be an on-ramp. Either someone is too dangerous to have in public (which case they should still be imprisoned), or they have served their sentence and their punishment is over.

To add to this, 45% of people in federal prison are there for a drug charge.

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...

Only a little over 1/3rd are actually in prison for violent crime.

Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

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When the economy and job market began storming back, we were inundated with inbound requests for our services. Our perseverance seemed to be paying off. Except now we were hit with a new gut punch: “The Great Resignation.” Now our workers were reticent to come back to work. And if they did accept a job, they’d often leave after only a few days. As in the workers you placed, employees of 70MR? Why would they leave aft…

Back to the way it was pre-pandemic. I work for a Fortune 100 company with great pay and fantastic benefits (I am on a 6 week paid sabbatical right now). But whereas before people would stay with the company for 5-10 years, now they are leaving in droves (not because anything bad is happening at the company, we are doing great) and nobody is sticking around.

Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

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When the economy and job market began storming back, we were inundated with inbound requests for our services. Our perseverance seemed to be paying off. Except now we were hit with a new gut punch: “The Great Resignation.” Now our workers were reticent to come back to work. And if they did accept a job, they’d often leave after only a few days. As in the workers you placed, employees of 70MR? Why would they leave aft…

I would also like more information about this phenomenon. What’s the scale of this? For example, how many people accepted a job and then quit within a few days? How did it impact these people’s lives? For example, did this result in increased recidivism? If so, at what scale?

The Great Resignation is curious, if I could speculate maybe it was the pandemic bailout and markets bubble (crypto too) making people think "I've got money now!". Now that everything is tumbling down, I wonder if people will start returning to work. Except now most businesses have seemingly stopped hiring yet again (even retail/hospitality?), so I guess whichever way it goes, OP is in trouble.

Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

#49
post #37

Hi Richard, I'd like to donate towards retiring the debt you've personally guaranteed. How can I do this? Thanks for trying, it's more than most do. My genuine condolences you were unable to maintain traction due to the macro. (agree with 0des' sibling comment, hibernate the effort vs this being the death of it)

Same. GoFundMe?

Same. Richard, you & your startup were one of the most memorable from our batch. So sorry to hear this news. I suspect there are other founders that feel the way Mike and I do.

Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

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post #25

Never heard of it, but sounds dangerous helping out rapists and murderers and such.

Perhaps, but unless you want a permanent under class of people unable to find real employment, there needs to be an on-ramp. Either someone is too dangerous to have in public (which case they should still be imprisoned), or they have served their sentence and their punishment is over.

Exactly. I truly hope sowww doesn’t find themselves on the wrong side of the law for the million dumb reasons a person can get arrested and jailed for.
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