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Re:Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mis... by FireBeyond on Sunday January 12, 2020 @04:44PM (#22029711)
I'd argue that you often only need one of those criteria.

Witness Vinod Khosla and his battles: he has expected fines, understands them (though disagrees), and the net negative is (in his case) so trivial as to be negligible.

"Oh, you want to fine me $10,000/day? Well, go for it. By the end of my life that might amount to 3% of my net worth".

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Re:Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mis... by Normal_gaussian on Sunday January 12, 2020 @05:32PM (#22030062)
That was in fact what I was attempting to convey. It was unfortunate that each point was formatted onto one line - I forgot that HN does not use markdown!
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