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And to people whose lives were wrecked by addiction. Tens of thousands of dollars would be a welcome windfall to people on HN, but to these families it could even be life changing amounts of money. Sucks that their payout is now delayed indefinitely.


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Hope it pays for the therapy they'll need.

Just imagine the amount of stress on this people, hope the money really worth it.

$1.3 billion would provide them some comfort.

I hope they contribute some of that money back to Jason where it is deserved.

However awesome the result, they're not in it out of charity. They will want a return on those 24 years of investment.

Will any of this money go to the families of the dead?

More importantly, that 500M was money siphoned away from healing people. This is a share of the reward in not healing the sick.

That $1.5 billion goes to saving lives and curing people, the $900 million goes to ending lives illegally. We could funnel that $900 million into Medicare and help a whole lot more people.

Good question. $1.5M is a lot of amount of money, but it will by no means fund all the patients, so there will always be treatments for donors to fund.

With hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue per year, I guess they should have donated more to the relevant Attorney Generals' campaign funds. My best wishes to all of the victims in this article.

That's ~100m that could be put towards things that actually help people and improve peoples lives.

It's always hard to put a monetary value on these things. With that said, Holocaust survivors were way underpaid.

In order for the policy to be a deterrent for the parents, the children need to endure suffering. I do not think that $450k will undo the damage done to those kids.


The money is probably going into custom homes, the practice, malpractice insurance, children's education, restaurants, and vacations.

They are going to need that money for rectal reconstruction when they get out of the clink.

It's spent on scam charities that waste their resources handing out $75 boxes of syringes to junkies. You might as well set the money on fire--it would be less destructive than how the money is being spent now.

Why? Do they need to pass all of it on? If they made billions, wouldn't 10% be enough for a lifetime while 90% could be returned to the public?

$18m over 3 years to help 500k people suffering from serious financial hardship? Thats not even $40 per person. Yeah, seems like an easy win.

There's a weekend, and then there's $18 million.

How much do you think recovery.org spent? And they're not 6 months late.


Hopefully with their decision to raise money they can afford to improve this situation.
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