I don't think scammers like Madoff, Carlo Ponzi or that Friedbank guy should be in prison, people fall for their lies. The problem are those people believing it, they must lose their money and learn, so they improve their behaviour and study or investigate a bit more before investing, same thing about shitcoins. I was a shitcoiner before, I got scammed a few times in life, lost money in the stock market with a few bad stocks and projects, but I never ran to the state like a baby because of my poor decisions.
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I love to disagree on this.
They should of course be in prison. They did not obey laws so they have to be in prison.
It would be the same to say: "The rapist of my daughter should not be in jail. The problem are girls and women that dress sexy and want to be raped. They have to be raped so they know that they should not dress sexy."