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For a person making $30,000 a year, a $1,000 fine could mean very significant impacts on their daily life.
For a person making $30,000,000 a year, a $1,000,000 fine may mean they can’t afford an extra Ferrari.
For a person “making” $30,000,000,000 a year, a $1,000,000,000 fine may mean they can’t… Buy another island? You still have $29,000,000,000 that you can do who knows what with. This is the entire GDP of some countries. I also don’t know if this one is a realistic example.
Anyway, proportional is nice, but really you need a progressive system to really match the weight of punishments, as far as impacting your daily life or happiness.
I found this today because I‘m getting old posts for whatever reason but I‘m glad I saw it. Since we‘re used to the „rich people laugh about speeding tickets“ mentality, it’s quite nice to see them stack (like now in the EU) but you made me get why this isnt enough. It needs to be based on impact, not only proportion.
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For a person making $30,000 a year, a $1,000 fine could mean very significant impacts on their daily life.
For a person making $30,000,000 a year, a $1,000,000 fine may mean they can’t afford an extra Ferrari.
For a person “making” $30,000,000,000 a year, a $1,000,000,000 fine may mean they can’t… Buy another island? You still have $29,000,000,000 that you can do who knows what with. This is the entire GDP of some countries. I also don’t know if this one is a realistic example.
Anyway, proportional is nice, but really you need a progressive system to really match the weight of punishments, as far as impacting your daily life or happiness.
I found this today because I‘m getting old posts for whatever reason but I‘m glad I saw it. Since we‘re used to the „rich people laugh about speeding tickets“ mentality, it’s quite nice to see them stack (like now in the EU) but you made me get why this isnt enough. It needs to be based on impact, not only proportion.