i find this incident both funny and weirdly fascinating

[dzlk]

According to the Orlando Sentinel, Richard Lewis Ludwig, 54, was in town to watch his son’s baseball game when he found a credit card on the ground outside a mall

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[pastorlenny]

You don't accumulate net worth like that by just letting the opportunities that life presents to you pass you by.

[dzlk]

He just probably lost his dental license (felony conviction? Yeah, like you're going to be given access to narcotics after that!), his practice, and way more than the $40.64 he saved by using someone else's credit card.

That's what makes it so fascinating to me - the economic risk-to-reward here is so utterly crazy I'm left wondering what sort of unconscious motives were at work to make it feel worth it.

[kurtmrufa]

Also that the $40 is a /felony/. Oh, yeah, right, his social class hadn't thought that one of their own would be hammered by that! So there's this whole other layer of irony.