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Comment by olalonde

15 hours ago

Younger. The opportunity cost of time scales non-linearly with age. If you're old enough, 10 years can be a life sentence.

If I were asked to give up 10 years of my life I would rather choose to give up the final 10 years than 10 years in the prime of my life.

  • I think anyone would. But that’s not the scenario here. The question is: would you spend your last decade in a cell just to have the "satisfaction" of knowing where some gold is buried?