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But the post specifically compares the payout with number of years served.
by dkarras 7y ago
But the post specifically compares the payout with number of years served.
- Zarel 7y agoAnother poster mentions that you can transfer/spend it in a way that's difficult to recover: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21275859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21275859 But even if that wasn't true, you could still compare expected value. For instance, if you had an 80% chance of successfully embezzling $8 million without getting caught, and a 20% chance of serving 2 years of jail, this would translate to an expected value of $1 million per year served.
- CydeWeys 7y agoWhich is zero in many (most?) cases, because you don't get caught. The expected number of years served is gonna be something like, say, 80% chance of 0 years, or 20% chance of 10 years, averaging out to 2 years (I'm making these figures up). So if you get $2M from that, then you're averaging two years.