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Did you read the article? There are consequences, they just don’t involve fines accruing over time. If your grift is to take a book from the library in the cit
by thrwn_frthr_awy 7y ago
Did you read the article? There are consequences, they just don’t involve fines accruing over time.
If your grift is to take a book from the library in the city you live in and never return it, I don’t think you are going get very far.
I live in a city that got rid of fines a couple years ago after they were collecting about seventy cents for ever dollar they spent trying to collect fines. For some reason people really want this to be a bad idea and I’m not sure why.
- techsupporter 7y ago> For some reason people really want this to be a bad idea and I’m not sure why. We just voted on a library levy renewal in Seattle and the (comparatively very small) part of the levy that would pay to remove library fines was basically all anyone talked about. A small chunk of the talking points centered around whether fines should be a deterrent or if they have a purpose. But the majority? Boiled down to some variant of "people will get away with stealing library books" / "what if homeless people get free books and aren't punished for not being like the rest of us and returning books?" I come down on "library fines are not beneficial to what libraries are supposed to do," for what it's worth, and voted yes on the levy in large part so that fines would be done away with.
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