Comment by onlypassingthru
2 hours ago
A company nightwatchman making $20/hr would cost about $80k/yr, all in.
One prisoner costs the California taxpayer $125k/yr, all in.
Maybe the company should foot the bill for a security guard instead of asking the taxpayers to subsidize their business.
This implies that vandals only attack one business, instead of being a public nuisance or menace to everyone.
>solar farm in an undeveloped area
Looks like the vandals will have to move along to somewhere else to score some copper.
Ah yes, breaking news: vandals have cars and commit more than one kind of crime.
24/7 coverage 365 days a year at 20$/h = 175,200$/year.
>Junkies will find ways through the fencing at night
Your math implies polar winter. Solar would be a bad investment.
You can’t assume behavior is unchanged when you change the situation.
In remote areas if you only guard at night they will go in the day.
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Your takeaway is that every solar installation, regardless of size, now has an $80k/year minimum cost associated with its' mere existence because California can't get its' house in order?
Citation needed that this problem is unique to California.
https://wallethub.com/edu/drug-use-by-state/35150
> Maybe the company should foot the bill for a security guard instead of asking the taxpayers to subsidize their business.
Why would a company spend their own money when they can have someone else spend their money instead?