What's a year in jail worth?

[jukel123 9,968]

Financial crime is very common. A Chinese woman has just been sentenced to 11 years for financial crimes which netted her over 5 billion pounds. Yes 5 billion pounds! Something to do with bitcoin, I don't even understand what it is tbh.

If somebody had said to me at say 30 years old, you can make 5 billion for your family and serve 40% of an eleven year sentence, I think I would be very, very tempted. In fact I would jump at it.

A mate of  my mine is an much more awkward leftie than me and is currently serving 5 months at 75 years of age for refusing to pay a tax bill of 20 grand or something. I've told him, begged him, to just pay the f****n tax bill off at 50 quid a month or so, but he won't have it. He thinks, like me, he's having the piss taken out of him and cites the late queen as a tax avoider, since she pocketed the money we gave her and more and then salted it away in the Cayman Islands. He's also got a thing about Trump and Bezos  and the rest of them paying f**k all tax.

So. Question. How much is a year in jail worth? To me, at 75, with not a lot off time left,  it would have to be an awful lot of money, maybe 10 million?  which I would give to my family and a few mates. Maybe 5 million if I could have my own cell. In fact maybe two million if I could have my own cell and be transferred to a cushy open prison after a month or so.lol. Maybe half a million if I could serve 40% of my sentence. Lol.

How about you?

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[Halfhound 521]

If you can come out clean and get on with your life then it’s a no brainer. But I think your pal is on a looser the revenue don’t go away and they’ll just take it when passed away. If he had any sense he would settle if he owes £20k you’d be suprised how little they’ll settle for. If you come out and every time you try and spend money you get looked into it isn’t worth the hassle. Money is no good if you can’t spend it 

[mackem 30,415]

Time is the only currency you spend without knowing your balance,use it wisely.

[WataWalloper 4,087]

1 minute ago, mackem said:

Time is the only currency you spend without knowing your balance,use it wisely.

Not true, I got 4 kids including a 19 year ole daughter haha I have no clue of any balance haha 

[leegreen 2,276]

17 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

 

A mate of  my mine is an much more awkward leftie than me 

 Maybe 5 if I could have my own cell. In fact maybe two million if I could have my own cell.

How about you?

I like my life too much and nobody knows when theirs will end. Saying that, if I were 75, I might enjoy the break 

If I knew I could keep it. I'd do 6 months for a few hundred grand.

[leegreen 2,276]

4 minutes ago, mackem said:

Time is the only currency you spend without knowing your balance,use it wisely.

You can't buy your time back, no matter how rich you are. 

[Councilestatekid 2,163]

Give me 100grand id do a year now be a easy 100grand things would tick over while I was in the pokey then a 100grand bonus tax free I presume 

[Halfhound 521]

But Gents you can make the decision your going suffer a bit and take the hits so the people coming after you won’t ever have too. Legacy is everything 

[waltjnr 8,274]

24 minutes ago, mackem said:

Time is the only currency you spend without knowing your balance,use it wisely.

So zen buddha ! Like it mack ! Felt like Tripitaka was talking to me !

[Stavross 19,038]

You couldn’t pay me enough, I’m too pretty for jail

ive got a mate who was involved in the import business of party prescriptions in the mid 90 ( his dad owned a coach company) he knew at some point his luck would run out so every penny he made he gave to someone he knew who cleaned and “ invested “ it for him with no connection to him, when he got court it was for a few hundred pills and he got 3 years for it, he’s now living like a country gent and hasn’t worked a day since the early 2000’s, I would of said the 18 months he did inside was definitely worth it for the life he lives now 

[mackem 30,415]

1 hour ago, waltjnr said:

So zen buddha ! Like it mack ! Felt like Tripitaka was talking to me !

I sought enlightenment and found it (sort of) Walt.

 

[jukel123 9,968]

9 minutes ago, mackem said:

I sought enlightenment and found it (sort of) Walt.

 

There's a Buddhist temple near me. I often go there for a walk around the gardens which are very peaceful. I've spoken to lots of mostly young people there  who have decided  to become monks. People from all over the world. They all say they are seeking peace and meaning in their lives. They all reject the materialist world. Fair.

I quite often go into the temple just to observe and have occasionally  spun the prayer wheels. But nothing came of my prayers, so I figured there was  nothing in it and nobody out there.lol

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[mackem 30,415]

9 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

There's a Buddhist temple near me. I often go there for a walk around the gardens which are very peaceful. I've spoken to lots of mostly young people there  who have decided  to become monks. People from all over the world. They all say they are seeking peace and meaning in their lives. They all reject the materialist world. Fair.

I quite often go into the temple just to observe and have occasionally  spun the prayer wheels. But nothing came of my prayers, so I figured there was  nothing in it and nobody out there.lol

I once trekked up a mountain path in the Himalayas with a monk,he was leaving food outside a hut,inside the hut was a junior monk seeking enlightenment,he wouldn’t see a human for three years,three months,three weeks and three days,then he would emerge from the hut hopefully enlightened and come down to the monastery a fully fledged monk.He didn’t want 10 or 5 million quid for his solitary meditative three years,it wasn’t for material possessions or gain.I learnt something that trip,my freedom and time,to me personally,are worth far more than a few quid,I want to live life,but I am aware we are all different.

 

[jukel123 9,968]

8 minutes ago, mackem said:

I once trekked up a mountain path in the Himalayas with a monk,he was leaving food outside a hut,inside the hut was a junior monk seeking enlightenment,he wouldn’t see a human for three years,three months,three weeks and three days,then he would emerge from the hut hopefully enlightened and come down to the monastery a fully fledged monk.He didn’t want 10 or 5 million quid for his solitary meditative three years,it wasn’t for material possessions or gain.I learnt something that trip,my freedom and time,to me personally,are worth far more than a few quid,I want to live life,but I am aware we are all different.

 

I'm a bit cynical Mack. Would the young lad really have received enlightment? Whatever that is? He would be more likely be loopy because of sensory deception and no human contact. But if he did, or thinks he did, good luck. There's millions of ways to live life. Most don't get the luxury of choice. But if that is his chosen path. Fairplay.

[Qbgrey 4,386]

Not sure but it’s actually quite frightening if you think you are going in the nick. It’s probably the only thing worth  getting locked up for is ££££ gain. I understand the fella going for tax money that’s a piss take and we’re getting screwed over  by the govt. Working our bollox to get raped