you keep talking in dollars and not hours if the fine is "one week of income" and you don't want to lose a week then you won't speed if a speeding ticket was

you keep talking in dollars and not hours if the fine is "one week of income" and you don't want to lose a week then you won't speed if a speeding ticket was 5 cents everyone would speed every day... and this is the status quo for the rich since the fine is to their income what five cents is to most others so we fine people enough that it affects them in a proportionate way to make the likelihood of changing their behavior equal, rather than only changing the behavior of the poor