🇸🇻 Bukele should pay prison inmates bitcoin to learn new skills
76 sats \ 10 comments \ @SatoshiNakanodo 12 Jul 2023 bitcoin
The Wall Street Journal and other mainstream media outlets continue to harp on El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele for cleaning up the streets and moving to a Bitcoin standard. The latest headline from WSJ reads:

The Country With the Highest Murder Rate Now Has the Highest Incarceration Rate
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele kicked off a gang crackdown that has strong support from locals who can now live and do business safely, but faces questions from rights groups.
I think Bukele should turn this narrative its head by paying inmates bitcoin to learn new skills so they can re-enter the workforce and contribute to El Salvador’s rebirth.
Not sure if this is possible (or perhaps this isn't a new idea) but I think this would be a very effective way to reduce the prison population and rehabilitate former criminals/gang members by resetting their time preference and giving them a path forward so they stay out of the correctional system.
Plus, it will make the talking heads explode 🤯 . Of course, they'll just find something else to criticize.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @llamabyte 13 Jul 2023
So that was tried recently, they did all sort of job placements and stuff. It did not go well. Look up the topic on el salvadores two main subreddits . They set them up with trade school and stuff and they just kept doing gang shit.
What Bukele has the opportunity to do is heal the soul.The rest will follow. Get them to try DMT, Mushrooms, LSD, Mindfulness Meditation in a voluntary program. Along with Victim Reconcillitation interviews, tattoo removals. They will be completely different people. Some small number will never change, but that is a fraction of the current prison population.
His main thesis and that of Salvadorians is, understandibly, shaming and spite. The whole perp walk and one meal a day thing.
But carried on too long , without reintegration and he is just creating his opposition army.
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7 sats \ 2 replies \ @nerd2ninja 12 Jul 2023
Man, its gonna be rough dude. Remember who these inmates are. They're MS13. An incredibly violent gang that kills without a second thought, human traffics, drug deals, extorts etc etc etc. Its like a whole lifestyle with a whole incentive structure to keep itself going. I don't know how you would reform an entire population from that
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51 sats \ 0 replies \ @iguano 12 Jul 2023
They don't, that's why in El Salvador they need to keep doing ilegal things to the inmates, there is no way to recover them. There is no legal way to recover the country, When you see people complaining about the "Dictator" well, they can take the 300k M13 and M18 on their community and try to fix them the "right way".
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatoshiNakanodo OP 12 Jul 2023
I agree. Worth a shot though. Go big or go home I always say.
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @designsats 13 Jul 2023
Tattoo or a scar is enough to be booked into jail. No proof, no testimony, no evidence we like to see presented befroe throwing person into cell. Its concentration camp and Im yet to see some efforts to release wrongly imprisoned. Cos you bet ya there are some wrongly imprisoned with no evidence
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @02fa90fd41 13 Jul 2023
Most of the prisoners probably have more Bitcoin than the govnt anyway …. Kek
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @designsats 13 Jul 2023
They dont receive due justice, forget they will get btc.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Ganjamon 13 Jul 2023
I cant imagine giving violent gang members an opportunity to gain mass wealth once released, hoping that they get a real job, would be a good idea
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatoshiNakanodo OP 13 Jul 2023
The point isn’t to give them “mass wealth”. The point is to offer them a choice between building themselves into a productive member of society or sit in prison.
Throwing them a few sats is an incentive to participate in their own rehabilitation – plus a lesson in economics & money management.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @waddytaft 12 Jul 2023
Poverty alleviation solution and education for free.
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