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Discussing the length of a prison sentence strictly in terms of income lost is also greatly understating the actual severity of the punishment. I would gladly

• ohyes 6y ago
  > I wouldn't trade 4.5 years of my healthy adult life for anything But you probably do, just not on purpose. It's smaller decisions that you don't realize involve trading 'healthy adult life' for money/convenience/pleasure/release. And of course, the work hours you put in are very directly trading healthy adult life for money. Opportunity cost is not something that we, as humans, are particularly good at. It is of course possible that you are exceptional, in which case you can assume I'm speaking from my own fallible experience of existence.
  • richardwhiuk 6y ago
    No, marginal cost of free time gets very expensive for most people. While I'd be willing to do my current job for X, if you wanted to double my hours, you'd need to pay me than 2X.
  • snakeboy 6y ago
    You're correct, I should have been more precise. 4.5 years lost all at once is what is unacceptable. I recognize work and all of life's "chores" take time, and that every decision I make cuts off an infinitude of other choices. Though most chores have a positive reward for doing them, while prison has very little. The larger point I intended was that for most people (especially handsomely-paid professionals like software devs) time is a more constrained resource than money. Lastly, time lost all at once is worse than time loss incrementally, i.e. if I could serve my 4.5 year sentence 40 hours a week, that doesn't sound so bad, or that unfamiliar... ;)