Prison Bankers Who Profit from the Inmates
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#2This is a state-granted monopoly and it's being abused. The services JPay offers should either be government run or open to free market competition.
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#3The cynical way prisoners are exploited is reminiscent of the way prisons in the middle ages were run, except they didn't have marketers back then.
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#4The only question that rings to me anymore about these stories: What can I do?
What code can I write? What broker can I call? What form can I sign? How can I register my civic will so as to undo this blight?
For me, this is the most embarrassing thing about being a United States citizen.
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#5This looks like a nice gig to have too, running an app-store for a (literally) captive market of over a million people:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-14/the-apple-of...
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#6The only question that rings to me anymore about these stories: What can I do? What code can I write? What broker can I call? What form can I sign? How can I register my civic will so as to undo this blight? For me, this is the most embarrassing thing about being a United States citizen.
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#7This is a state-granted monopoly and it's being abused. The services JPay offers should either be government run or open to free market competition.
How can we trust the government to solve this when it was the government that created the problem to begin with?
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#8So they bribe and kick-back their way through the year and then throw a big party (ahh 'convention') in Vegas where they give each other awards while sucking down premium liquor, hand-rolled cigars, and no doubt metric tons of the stuff half of their inmates are in prison for.
The pigs from 1984 would blush over this stuff.
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#9The cynical way prisoners are exploited is reminiscent of the way prisons in the middle ages were run, except they didn't have marketers back then.
To me it is reminiscent of the way our government (and most others) works.
Both involve a monopoly on banking, granted by the government, to enrich government-selected corporations, at the expense of non-bankers.
No need to go back to the middle ages to find analogies. :)
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#10"He says he charges only as much as he must to maintain a razor-thin profit margin."
I have a hard time believing this. Does any one have experience in this space? The way I understand it, it really shouldn't cost $6+ for an electronic transaction.