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At what age do you believe, 10 years in jail are a better price to pay?
by lukan 8mo ago
At what age do you believe, 10 years in jail are a better price to pay?
- olalonde 8mo agoYounger. The opportunity cost of time scales non-linearly with age. If you're old enough, 10 years can be a life sentence.
- CrossVR 8mo agoIf I were asked to give up 10 years of my life I would rather choose to give up the final 10 years than 10 years in the prime of my life.
- Dylan16807 8mo agoIf you ask people that would still have 25+ years of life after they're freed, I bet a lot of them would willingly take that trade.
- lukan 8mo agoNobody knows how long you will have to live, especially not if you spend 10 years in an average prison. But there is a limited time of being young.
- tasuki 8mo agoI don't think there exists an amount of money I'd take in exchange for 10 years in jail, at any point in my life. 10 years is a long time. And sure, it depends on the jail... Can I like go for at least a short bike ride or go running? Can I have my computer and internet and Hacker News? Can I drink my oolongs and pu-erhs? Is the food delicious? But then it's not much of a jail anymore...
- N7lo4nl34akaoSN 8mo ago1 trillion dollars.
- tasuki 8mo agoCan I use the 1 trillion dollars to make my jail stay more comfortable? If not, then I'm not interested. What would I do with 1 trillion dollars to offset the missing 10 years? Perhaps if there was a good chance I could prolong my "still healthy" years by 20 years or more, I should take it. But it seems like disappearing for 10 years would break a lot of things. People will die, friends will move on... sounds like a rather bad deal still.
- N7lo4nl34akaoSN 8mo ago1 quadrillion dollars. I'm not sure if I would take it either. I would feel better earning (a fraction of) the money instead of just sitting around for it.
- elevatortrim 8mo agoI would not want a quadrillion dollars in the first place, I would first try to reduce it to an amount that I can maintain relatively hassle-free and under-the-radar. But even for that perfect amount, I can't think of an age where I'd want to spent 10 years in prison, no matter how comfortable it is.
- latexr 8mo ago> What would I do with 1 trillion dollars to offset the missing 10 years? Buy every politician and the media to become the effective ruler of your country, then use your influence to improve the lives of your compatriots, overhaul the entire political system and media to add safeguards to prevent anyone from ever again doing what you did, create a just society and become a beacon of hope to the world.
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- cbg0 8mo agoIt depends on what life you've lived so far.
- latexr 8mo agoSeveral people in the comments are focusing too much on the 10 years and on if that’s an acceptable trade-off. It’s worth pointing out no one knew it would be 10 years, not even the judge. The sentence wasn’t “10 years”, it was “indefinitely until we get an answer”. It just so happens that 10 years is when this judge decided “alright, we’re not going to get an answer, no point in the jail time”.