3 ms·

> In your mind, are 19 murders equivalent to 7 counts of fraud? Well, it was a very big fraud. If the median prison sentence for nonviolent theft of a $30,000

> In your mind, are 19 murders equivalent to 7 counts of fraud? Well, it was a very big fraud. If the median prison sentence for nonviolent theft of a $30,000 car is 2 years, why shouldn't the prison sentence for stealing $3 billion be 200,000 years?

pclmulqdq 3y ago
Because that's not how any of this works.
ttymck 3y ago
Surely it's because anything over ~100 years is the "maximum punishment": you die before you see freedom. Sentences are scaled to the human lifespan.