Expectation of minimum set of i.i.d random stopping times with the same distribution

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What is the expectation of the minimum set of n i.i.d random stopping times? is it \frac{T}{n}

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Not only is that answer not true in general, offhand, I can't think of any distribution of the stopping times (defined to be a distribution that is zero on $r < 0$) that would make

$E(\min(r_1, r_2, \ldots r_n)) = \frac{E(r)}{n}$

hold for all positive integer $n$.