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glommer06/16/20257 repliesview on HN

I am the Turso CEO. We pay him a full salary, just not health care benefits.


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99990000099906/16/2025

Your doing the Lord's work.

Even if you just paid him the state minimum wage, it would stop him from having a giant employment gap.

The next step would be background check reform. A DUI record isn't relevant to anything not involving driving.

Excluding a very small handful of SVU level crimes everything should be wiped clean after 5 years or so.

I had an experience with a co worker who would brag about robbing people, selling substances and when he got caught his family money made it go away. He's a CTO at a mid sized tech company now. Had he been poor he'd have a record and be lucky to work as a Walgreens clerk.

Was the biggest "tough on crime" person I've ever met. I think people with means don't understand if you don't have money you can't afford bail.

Can't afford bail you'll just be indefinitely detained without trial for months if not years.

Everything about the criminal justice system is about exploitation. Get house arrest, that's a daily monitoring fee. States like Florida are forcing released inmates to repay the state for the cost of incarceration.

It's past fixing tbh, I'm personally hopping to immigrate to a functional country soon.

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david92706/16/2025

What you're doing is really wonderful.

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tommica06/16/2025

How does it exactly work in a scenario like this? Do you just pay to his account, or does it somehow go through the prison system?

bregma06/16/2025

Is he paid in dollars or in cigarettes?

gwbennett06/16/2025

Bravo Zulu!!!

dl999906/16/2025

People like you give me hope for the world.

unit14906/16/2025

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