Yet in 2008 crisis nobody was sentenced for more then 15 years

And that's was unjust, too.

This equivalency of cash to bodies is ghoulish. Does anyone actually think like this?

Well he stole $10 billion, imagine all of your friends' friends' friends' friends losing their entire life savings just before retirement. What % of these people are going to kill themselves, how many thousands of lifetimes of work did he destroy, how much stress did he cause, how many of those people are going to suffer for the rest of their lives, and how many early deaths is that going to cause, among direct victims as well as their family members?

Or is it somehow more okay because they're out of sight, out of mind? There's still going to be a real body count for his actions, it just won't be immediately apparent.

Yes, it's ghoulish, as were his actions, but it's too easy to handwave them away as just some techbro oopsie if they're not contextualized like this.

When it's your job to decide which safety equipment to install on highways or whether to install scrubbers on coal power plants, you have to think like this.