Drone Drops Drugs Onto Ohio Prison Yard

Okian Warrior sends a report from CNN about an incident last week at a prison in Mansfield, Ohio, where a brawl broke out after a drone dropped a package of drugs into the prison yard. Prison staff had no idea at the time what caused ~75 inmates to gather and fight, but surveillance tapes clearly showed a drone hovering over the yard and dropping a package that turned out to contain tobacco, marijuana, and heroin. A spokesperson for the prison said this was not the first time they've had an incident involving a drone, but they wouldn't go into specifics.

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[bluefoxlucid]

That's my primary Xanatos gambit, honestly.

Fix education and solve poverty; repeal minimum wage; end all government intervention in education above the K-12 school level. End of homelessness causes major upheaval of market systems, as individuals no longer face starvation and death in the streets as counterpoint to low wage slave job, completely changing our culture. This allows repeal of minimum wage, which can be used as a published standard to make low wage values seem fair to the employee (strong diplomacy tool), thus leaving the employer negotiating with a stubborn candidate who won't settle for less than he believes he's worth. Without public access to individually-affordable college, businesses suffer unless they train their own workforce, making workforce development the only survivable business strategy (your competitors who do so will overtake you and throw you out of the market if you don't); they'll also risk loss of value if skilled employees quit, and so must create a workplace which makes the employee feel valued. Combined result? Every single individual employee now has the negotiating power of a trade union.

Fail? We continue on current welfare system, and with current broad education plans. Eventually, high minimum wages cause rapid overtake of automation, unemploying 47% of laborers. This cuts about half the consumer goods market, unemploying half of who is left, giving us around 70%-80% unemployment. Economy collapses. Food becomes scarce due to purely economic factors. America looks like France pre-French-revolution. Riots break out. Attempts to fix the economy by government force only increase production costs and make it impossible to provide enough goods (fuzzy projection; I have the converse theory, but it doesn't exactly apply here). Cities burn. Congress is executed. Union is dissolved, America is no more, weak states are consumed by larger states, and North America starts looking like Europe sans EU.

Both of these are utter chaos. One takes the path of making the economy more fluid and the laborer more powerful, causing rapid wealth growth, causing rapid technological development and rapid cultural changes; the other takes the path of letting the overweight system trip and fall and collapse into a flaming heap. Either way, I'll live in interesting times, not the stagnant and boring world I was born into (okay that's not fair: I was born into a world of rapid technological growth due to information management creating an economic bottleneck that computers opened up; now I'm trying to replicate that world by permanently widening the wealth channel, simultaneously protecting us from an economic collapse caused by mass labor displacement in already-stagnant markets. I didn't grow up in this boring world; I moved here against my will, and I intend to make it radical once more).