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Not really comparable. The street dealer is not likely to get 40 years, although many may have gotten it (Assuming that a street dealer doesn't have 400 kilos o
by onetimemanytime 9y ago
Not really comparable. The street dealer is not likely to get 40 years, although many may have gotten it (Assuming that a street dealer doesn't have 400 kilos of coke in his stash house. If he does, he's no street dealer)
Also the doc loses his license and every single penny he has, between lawyers, years without being able to make a penny, and court fines. When you make a certain amount of money the trend is to live up to it: mortgages, fancy cars, club memberships, schools for kids and so on. When the money stops coming in, guess what happens?
- pessimizer 9y ago> When the money stops coming in, guess what happens? You drop to the status of a boring working person who never took kickbacks to sell opiates? A fate worse than death, I guess. The street dealer is also not likely to get 4 years. That's the point - 40 years was a number picked to illustrate a sentencing discrepancy argument. The fact that a 10x factor seems almost reasonable is the argument. > a street dealer doesn't have 400 kilos of coke What do you think Resenberg's prescriptions added up to, by weight? It's probably not fair to compare a street dealer to him.
- lopmotr 9y ago> You drop to the status of a boring working person who never took kickbacks to sell opiates? A fate worse than death, I guess. People suffer from relative poverty, so that would be pretty bad.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoCrikey! If I'd been caught with everything that went through my hands as a small scale dealer I'd be screwed. Over ten years it certainly adds up! Kilograms of methamphetamine, thousands of ecstasy tables, tens of thousands of LSD tabs, a few hundred grams of pharmaceutical grade heroin. Yeah, they don't look favourable upon those sorts of quantities. Fortunately I only got caught with about five days worth of merchandise.
- jacquesm 9y agoWhy did you do it?
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoStill trying to work out how to spin that in to a story worth telling.
- mikeash 9y agoAre you implying that being bankrupted is worse than going to prison?
- rhizome 9y agoIf that's the rubric, poor people should never be incarcerated.
- twblalock 9y agoI'd bet that many rich people would rather spend 4 years in prison than lose all of their assets, especially if the prison is one of those minimum-security summer camps the white collar criminals normally end up in.
- onetimemanytime 9y ago>>Are you implying that being bankrupted is worse than going to prison? He's getting both. And he's losing everything: money, status, possibly family, ability to get another decent job... So he might rather do 10 years in jail but return to what it had before.