Would you be incarcerated for ten years if you could earn £100,000 per year afterwards?

Lysander said:
If you're of an artistic persuasion it's more likely to appeal to you, I would have thought. I could quite easily make this work in theory [for ten years, I'm not sure though].

It's quite easy to say, Atticus, "work hard and you could easily earn in excess of £100,000" but earning a salary like that is also about ability and acumen, not just hard work. Or are you saying that ANY amount of hard work will get you that salary regardless of ability?
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I think it would come down to whether you're introverted or extroverted by nature.

I reckon I could quite happily keep myself entertained/occupied for that time, given the provisions specified. Hell, I'd probably end up coding the best game ever created :p
 
Haggisman said:
I think it would come down to whether you're introverted or extroverted by nature.

I reckon I could quite happily keep myself entertained/occupied for that time, given the provisions specified. Hell, I'd probably end up coding the best game ever created :p
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Absolutely, I'm quite introverted. In ten years I'm sure I could master any instrument, study ten years' worth of recordings and compositions, and excel at its performance on exit.
 
Translated to real world, and moving the silly low salary guarantee, a question:

"Would you be found guilty of a crime which you did not commit, which will lock you away within the UK prison system for 10 years, in return for £100k/500k/£1mn/£Whatever per annum compensation for life on release"

That's something I would certainly consider.
 
Lysander said:
Absolutely, I'm quite introverted. In ten years I'm sure I could master any instrument, study ten years' worth of recordings and compositions, and excel at its performance on exit.
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If you go on Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule, you could theoretically master a great many things during the stint in prison.

Taking into account inflation though and the fact that I'd be 34 upon my release from this delightful penal system, £100,000 seems rather low and my employment prospects would be shot to hell.
 
Theophany said:
If you go on Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule, you could theoretically master a great many things during the stint in prison.

Taking into account inflation though and the fact that I'd be 34 upon my release from this delightful penal system, £100,000 seems rather low and my employment prospects would be shot to hell.
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Why would you need normal employment prospects when you were:

A) A master musician
B) A highly successful self-published author
C) Rolling in it from the multitude of self-published indie games
D) <Insert your preference of expertise here>
E) Have £100k/year to fall back on?
 
1 big issue i see with this is the fact that you can use the internet, whats to stop me emailing/facebooking/tweeting my family and friends. by doing this you wont miss anything other than what outside looks like. if the deal included a decent pc internet connection and access to whatever games i wanted it would be no different to how i live now except for the few occasions i meet up with mates for the cinema and such. So i would given my request
 
everyone you have ever known will have forgotten about you and you will never be able to contact them.
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How is that possible are all your family and friends drugged to make them forget and how will you not be able to contact them, are they going to be locked up, murdered, moved to another planet... or are you going to be imprisoned again? No wait, I know you don't get the money, but what happens if they contact you first?
 
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