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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by zug_zug on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:18PM (#39853567)
Feels low to me too. I think the distinction between "violent" is completely irrelevant. I think taking money from people does just as much harm as physically injuring them -- many people would rather have several bones broken than lose their pension.

The benefit is the deterrent. It's especially important for wealthy people who we may wonder if they greased wheels behind the scenes.

If you want somebody to cry about, cry about a man doing a life sentence for marijuana possession, not sbf. [1]

1 - https://eji.org/news/life-sentence-for-marijuana-possession-...

Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by dijit on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:38PM (#39853975)
FWIW people have a viceral reaction to extremes of violence that they can comprehend.

When you consider that a 1% unemployment rate increase generally correlates to ~5,000 deaths then you can consider gross financial negligence to have an actual tangible human mortality cost.

We just don't, because it's too indirect and your laywer would argue confounding factors until you are all dead; but don't be mistaken: financial crimes do cost lives.

Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by tshaddox on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:22PM (#39853659)
I think it's generally appropriate to group violence, coercion, and fraud together in these discussions.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by FabHK on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:46PM (#39854104)
> I think the distinction between "violent" is completely irrelevant.

In particular since several people with crypto losses committed suicide, or worse, murder-suicide (killing their family and kids first).

Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by batch12 on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:23PM (#39853670)
I think it's okay to consider both to be too long.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by CraigJPerry on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:38PM (#39853982)
>> The benefit is the deterrent

That’s utterly useless. There is simply no way any sociopath gives one iota about it.

Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by tsimionescu on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:59PM (#39855175)
On the contrary, sociopaths typically only care about the deterrent.