Years ago on HN I posted a link to an essay by a appellate court chief justice that basically claimed that. Poor people need the threat of prison to keep them

Years ago on HN I posted a link to an essay by a appellate court chief justice that basically claimed that. Poor people need the threat of prison to keep them in line. Middle class people need the threat of loss of money to keep them in line. The wealthy only need the loss of their good reputation to keep them in line. That flies in the face of everything I know about poor people. For them their reputation is the only thing of value they have.