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The Japanese Mob Is Hiring Homeless People To Clean Up Fukushima
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Now, where do you find people willing to work in a fallout zone for minimum wage? According to a Reuters report, hidden within hundreds of contractors working on the cleanup effort are yakuza-controlled companies that pay headhunters to find homeless people willing to work inside the fallout zone. The sheer scale of the cleanup effort is staggering. While decontaminating the Fukushima plant itself will cost tens of billions and take years, there are also the surrounding areas in Fukushima prefecture, where cleanup costs are expected to top $30 billion. With Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), the owner of the Fukushima plant, essentially nationalized at this point, Reuters reports that there's some $35 billion in taxpayer funds on the table for contractors."
"Members of Japanese organized crime were arrested three times this year "on charges of infiltrating construction giant Obayashi Corp's network of decontamination subcontractors and illegally sending workers to the government-funded project," which in some cases were homeless people hired by recruiters paid bounties on each minimum-wage worker they could sign up."
Wrong.
These are subcontractors hired by Obayashi Construction Corp.
It's taxpayer money, but a private contract and private oversight.
Private exploiters, with private profit.
Socialize the expenses, privatize the revenue.
From the evidence to date, I think that the management of TEPCO would be improved by replacing every C level executive with a homeless person. It could hardly get worse.
Packages of self-cooking noodles will be the next big thing out of Japan!
And what pray tell will the Yakuza do with the radioactive waste?
Collect it, mix it with a special blend of herbs, spices, and peppers, and sell it as:
Fukushima "Devil may care, screw tomorrow" Nuclear Total Meltdown Exxxxtra Hot Sauce.
Some people are going to be desperate due to a shortage of their favorite. They might make a quick buck in the US, maybe Korea and China too. Or maybe they could just open a store on Amazon. They could compete with this stuff, which has one of the best reviews ever.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
What "class" is that? They're not slaughtering all the homeless people. They're convincing to a small number of them to take high risk jobs for low pay.
I was once told that an invisible man in the sky loved me and if I did not do exactly what he said no matter what he would show me that love by burning me for eternity.
Don't believe everything you hear...
There was an SF TV series that had something almost exactly like this as the plot.