Charlie Stross on Nostr: I can't help thinking that we'd be in a better place as a society if we assigned a ...
I can't help thinking that we'd be in a better place as a society if we assigned a notional value of, for example, 1 human lifetime per ten million dollars lost through financial crimes, and punished white collar criminals who cause >= $10M in damage as if they'd committed the corresponding number of murders.
(Lower the valuation if you want: $10M is plausibly a working lifetime’s earnings for a very well-paid professional. I went high because I'd rather err on the side of mercy.)
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