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.

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Retric 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

24/7 coverage 365 days a year at 20$/h = 175,200$/year.

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onlypassingthru 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

>Junkies will find ways through the fencing at night

Your math implies polar winter. Solar would be a bad investment.

	▲	Retric 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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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zdragnar 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This implies that vandals only attack one business, instead of being a public nuisance or menace to everyone.

	▲	onlypassingthru 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		>solar farm in an undeveloped area Looks like the vandals will have to move along to somewhere else to score some copper.

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happyopossum 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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?

	▲	cjsplat 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Citation needed that this problem is unique to California. https://wallethub.com/edu/drug-use-by-state/35150