I have no skin in the game, and can't judge the sincerity of her remorse, but 2 years seems astonishingly low, given she was a senior executive of a multi-billion dollar fraud.
Almost makes it worth having a go at one.
Almost makes it worth having a go at one.
She has no money, can’t get a job, and is going to be IN PRISON for two years.
I never understand people who seem to think any amount of jail time is trivial. I wouldn’t serve 30 days in jail for a billion dollars.
There's "jail" (colloquial for generic/television "prison" and all the real and fictional horrors that evokes), and then there's "minimum security womens' prison". These are qualitatively different things, and Ms Ellison is headed for the latter.
> I wouldn’t serve 30 days in jail for a billion dollars.
Interesting. I suspect that for a lot less than that, most people would even consider serving 30 days in a supermax. Or solitary confinement.
We have a few regular posters here on HN who have spent much more than 30 days in some version of "prison". I am not one of them, so my thoughts are of little value, but I would be very curious to hear theirs.
If the food is passable and I can read books/meditate, I'd do it for free. That'd be a very nice holiday from child rearing.
I certainly would. $1 billion is well into "never work again" territory, and lots of people spend much more time in jail than that, have far fewer resources waiting for them, and turn out just fine.
Let’s also consider the fact that in terms of day-to-day experience, a billion dollars is not worth much more than a few million. I have floated in an infinity pool at a five star resort and I’ve also floated in a temporary aboveground pool in my backyard and the experience is 95% the exact same. A billion dollars sounds like a lot but what exactly is it good for? SBF had billions and also said he derived no pleasure from anything. I’d rather have my unjailed normal experience.
But everyone is different. I have a probably uneducated belief that I am charming enough and resilient enough to get through a month in jail without too much harm coming to me.
You’d rather spend 50 years _totally free_ in your cubicle?
Prison isn’t that bad. Especially a federal minimum security woman’s prison. It’s basically like a summer camp, but with nothing fun to do.
Yep. cf. Michael Milken[0].
Enough money insulates you from ever having to care about what anyone thinks of you.
That would be a no brainer for me. I would do a year, no problem. Probably more.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_...
He's only been out for a little bit. Give it 10 years and ask him how being a broke felon is. Especially with a fraud conviction which will preclude him from employment even more.