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Four years is hardly a deterrent What do you know? Do tell.

• CamperBob2 9y ago
  Honestly, if you could make $10M as a mid-level distributor, squirrel most of it away tax-free, with the downside risk being only four years in the pen, that would be a massive rational win for most people. Of course, the only reason you can make millions of dollars illegally at this racket is because it's illegal in the first place, so never mind. Drug laws cause far more harm to society than the drugs themselves ever could. Any argument to the contrary can trivially be resolved to a special-pleading fallacy.
  • maxerickson 9y ago
    There's a famous paper about drug gang economics: http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittVenkateshAnEconomicAnalysis2000.pdf http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittVenkates... It suggests that $10 million of profit would be quite the success.
  • csallen 9y ago
    For reference, the doctor in the story "pleaded guilty to taking more than $188,000 in kickbacks disguised as speaker fees." As a result, he "lost his medical license and was ousted from his post as a Brown University professor, … the judge sentenced him to 51 months and ordered restitution of $754,000," and I'm sure he's gotten a heap of public shame and humiliation. Is it possible he has enough cash hidden away to make this all worthwhile? Yes, but I'd bet against it.
• paulcole 9y ago
  Couldn’t the same be said of, “Four years is plenty.”? 2 different opinions, neither sourced nor backed by data.