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SB_90s t1_j5eaob4 wrote

Reply to comment by Raevix in The Fyre Festival fraudster is launching his latest thing, and it looks like a party on an island by Worldly_Pirate_9817

All that says is that the jail time wasn't long enough to offset the benefits of defrauding thousands of people. That's the fundamental problem. Jail is meant to be a deterrent for crime, but if it's still net beneficial to commit the crime and go to jail, then it's failed.

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ddt70 t1_j5er2ei wrote

See also: Wall Street, where the fines bear almost zero correlation to the actual crimes…… thus being just simply part of the cost of doing business.

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