[koolba]

There had to be some scale or additive nature though.

If an otherwise peaceful person is committing fraud on a scale 1000 times larger than the next guy, wouldn’t it at least scale up logarithmically?

[skulk]

Actually, financial fraud sentencing guidelines add an extra number of years to the sentence that grows by the log of the money stolen: https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/guidelines-manu...

[koolba]

Wow that’s really fascinating!