[ExI] billionehhhs in trouble
Adrian Tymes
atymes at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 00:12:27 UTC 2019
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 2:21 PM <spike at rainier66.com wrote:
> Legal hipsters, how does it work? I am so far out of my area of expertise
> here.
>
The defense you propose - that those with lots of money have lowered
sensitivities to price, which diminishes their capacity for intent (and
thus their ability to commit crime) - is known as "affluenza". Last I
heard, it is generally rejected as a valid defense in US courts.
>
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