Chapter 249 I will open a prison in a hundred years
"Dear, I had a very strange dream last night!" Tangning said to Heidi next to her after waking up this morning.
"Oh? What dream?" Heidi asked casually.
"I dreamed that I came to the United States a hundred years from now, and what do you think I will be doing a hundred years from now?" Tangning asked.
"How can I guess this! Is he a painter? Or a novelist?" Heidi guessed casually.
Tangning shook her head and replied: "None of them are right, I am still a slave owner!"
"How is this possible? Didn't you say that there will be no more slaves and slave owners in ten years at most? How is it possible that you will still be a slave owner in a hundred years?" Heidi asked in confusion.
Tangning explained: "Although I am not a slave owner in name, in fact it is still the same. I opened a private prison a hundred years later!"
"What? A private prison? How is this possible?! How can a private prison be opened?" Heidi couldn't help but exclaimed.
Tangning replied with a smile: "Nothing in this world is absolute. In a hundred years, due to the surge in crime, public prisons will no longer be able to accommodate so many prisoners, and the state government will not be able to spend so much money for construction and maintenance."
New prisons, and some people want to take advantage of the opportunity to make money, so with the joint promotion of several parties, private prisons have appeared, and they are getting better and better, and they are very profitable!"
"How do private prisons make money?" Heidi asked curiously.
"The first thing is of course government subsidies. After all, private prisons are meant to share the pressure of public prisons, so the government must provide subsidies..."
Before Tangning could finish her words, Heidi interjected: "But the reason why the government agreed to set up private prisons is because they can't afford so much money. How can private prisons make profits through subsidies?"
"The operating costs of private prisons are definitely lower than those of public prisons, so in fact, private prisons will not lose money by subsidizing them. And didn't I just say that first of all, private prisons have other ways to make money!" Tang Ning said somewhat.
He replied unhappily.
Heidi also realized that she had been negligent, so she signaled: "I'm sorry, Tony, please continue talking!"
So Tangning coughed lightly and continued: "The second thing is to provide differentiated services for prisoners. That is to say, as long as prisoners are willing to spend money, they can enjoy everything outside, such as champagne, steaks, and comfortable rooms, even in prison.
Even pornographic products, servants, beauties, of course, the price must be much higher than outside! Prisoners who are unwilling to spend money can only live in extremely rough, barely starving cells every day and live in cells with extremely poor conditions.
It’s almost like a public prison!”
"Well, this is a way to make money, but it's a bit unfair!" Heidi smacked her lips.
"There will never be absolute fairness in the world!" Tangning said solemnly.
Heidi thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement: "That's true, is there anything else?"
"Of course there is. The next thing that is the main way for private prisons to make money, and the main reason why I call them slave owners, is to force prisoners who are unwilling to spend money to work. In short, it turns the prison into a large factory. These prisoners
They are workers who can be exploited at will. In this way, the cost of goods produced by private prisons will be much lower than that of ordinary factories, and they will be more competitive in the market. How can prison owners not make money in this way?"
"Looking at it this way, these prisoners are indeed similar to slaves, but what if these prisoners are released from prison? Won't this lead to instability in the factory? What we are most afraid of when we open a manor to grow cotton is that the slaves suddenly get sick, which will affect the cotton
Picked!" Heidi questioned.
Tangning was well prepared for this problem: "This requires the prison owner to establish a good relationship with the officials. The first step is to abolish the death penalty and increase the prison term, just like we raise slaves. You can bully him but you will not kill him easily, because this
There is one less labor force, and the purpose of increasing the sentence is naturally to prevent him from being released from prison, so as to ensure stable production of the factory.
Of course, just relying on this kind of cost-cutting method will definitely not work. You must also increase revenue, so you need to find ways to increase the number of prisoners, which means you need to enact more and more stringent laws to ensure that there is a steady stream of prisoners entering the prison.
Work for the prison master!"
"This, this is too dark and cruel!" Heidi shuddered.
"Isn't it dark and cruel if we buy slaves?" Tangning asked.
"Yes, but I heard from Yin Sha and others that most of these black slaves are from the defeated tribes. If we don't buy them, the victorious tribes won't be able to support them. In the end, most of them will be killed, even if they are lucky enough to survive.
They are also slaves, so when we buy them, we are actually saving them!" Heidi defended.
"But if we don't buy these black slaves, believe it or not, there will be fewer wars in Africa, because the purpose of many wars in Africa is to fight for slaves to sell to us for profit. To use a sentence I dreamed in a dream.
The explanation is that if there is no buying and selling, there will be no killing!" Tang Ning replied in a deep voice.
"Tony, are you telling the truth?" Heidi asked with a look of disbelief.
"Of course it's true. Why did I lie to you! If you don't believe it, just ask Sheffield and they will know!"
Just when Heidi was still about to say something, suddenly there was a knock on the door outside the bedroom, and then Marlene's timid voice came: "Sir, madam, old Robert has been killed!"
When Tangning heard this, she didn't even bother to put on her clothes. She jumped to the door and asked anxiously, "What did you say? Old Robert is dead?"
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Seeing Tangning's appearance, Marlene turned around in embarrassment, nodded and replied, "That's right, old Rob was killed with a knife at home!"
Tang Ning has deep feelings for Old Robert, and he doesn't even treat him as a slave or servant, because he grew up watching Tang Ning. According to the Chinese royal family, he is a veteran of two dynasties, and has always been
He was so loyal that he was wandering around during the Civil War. It was he who took care of this family in New Orleans. Even after he retired, he was often ordered by him to investigate various things, so after hearing the news of his death, he was still killed.
After the news, Tangning really couldn't accept it for a while.
In fact, it wasn't just him. When Tangning was about to go out, Heidi shouted from behind: "Tony, wait for me, I'll go with you!"
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