You are going to lose your home and can’t avoid it. Would you answer the request of a well-known acquaintance to bilk his/her company out of a ton of money for a share of the take?

Hell yes

Nope.

If we lose our home, we will have friends that help out on the short term and family on the mid.

On the long term, we will find a solution that is more durable and ethical than the seven years gained in the proposal you painted.

Now would I do such a thing as the only way to raise money for saving my child’s life through an urgently needed surgery? In that case, to quote @trailsillustrated, “Hell yes”!

So you’re talking you be fed and housed by the state following conviction? No thanks. And that is what you are talking about, committing a crime.

No thanks.

No.

First of all, stealing is shitty and objectively a bigger crime than it gets credit for. People who steal something that isn’t theirs are pretty low on the ladder. One is after all taking the fruits of somebody else’s efforts, and as mortal creatures we have only a finite amount of effort.

Second of all, they will probably get caught. In order to get a better deal from the prosecution, they will give me up. I,on the other hand, will have no one to give up. I will go to prison.

Not acceptable.

No. I DID lose my home in 2013 and as much as it has sucked I’d rather not risk going to jail.
Bilking anyone or anything makes one a thief and a criminal, no thanks. I may be financially compromised but I still have my integrity. Now, I may still have to file bankruptcy at some point but at least I will have a clear conscious about how I have comported myself during my fall from financial grace.

@Coloma Bilking anyone or anything makes one a thief and a criminal, no thanks.
Remember, you are not actually the one stealing the money, look at it more as helping them hide the loot and receive it for them—a way station of sorts. Besides, Big Business surely have stepped on the toes of the little man to get where they are. ~~

@Hypocrisy_Central You are proposing to be complicit in a crime, that makes you equally as guilty as any other party to the crime.

@zenvelo You are proposing to be complicit in a crime, that makes you equally as guilty as any other party to the crime.
Details, details, that is why they have good lawyers, to get around technicalities like that, even give you plausible deniability, make it seem you never knew what was going on, you were duped just as much as Mr. Fortune 500 Company.

@Hypocrisy_Central Yes, an accessory or accomplice to a crime that one knowingly participates in makes them just as guilty.

@Hypocrisy_Central Pssst….now you are advocating deception as well to cover up ones guilty status. Deception and bilking and looking for a way to weasel out of culpability is par for the course of sociopaths. lol

Correction: conscience not conscious, I knew that, haha.

^ Well, this is social, no harm in exploring all the possibilities. People hate Big Business anyhow…. ~~

So I have a few million dollars and I’m going to lose my home. Why wouldn’t I just sell my house and buy one that can be paid for outright and invest some of my millions in a legit business and use the rest of my money till my businesses or investment start to pay off?
A real friend also wouldn’t ask me to be in an illegal scheme.

Legal and prudent.

I like the part where you insinuate that it’s OK if it’s big business that’s being robbed. Seems like stealing is stealing, no matter how you try to justify it. Maybe you can get a liberal judge that will lighten your sentence because they don’t like big business but I wouldn’t count on it.