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> High potential punishment has never worked. And then you talk about meter maids. What do meter maids have to do with Google not breaking labor laws?
by seg_lol 5y ago
> High potential punishment has never worked.
And then you talk about meter maids. What do meter maids have to do with Google not breaking labor laws?
- tharkun__ 5y agoThis is something called an analogy. In particular I chose a "car analogy", which is a common technique. Sometimes when a non car analogy is used people smirkingly ask for or make up a car analogy even. I could use a different one that would stir up much more controversial debate. What if stealing office supplies carried the death sentence? If you are guaranteed never to be caught how much of a deterrent would it be? If you get caught 100% of the time for that but all they do is to make you pay 10x what the supplies were worth? Basically what I was trying to show that it's all about a combination of percentage of getting caught and the sentence. Only upping the possible sentence does not act as the deterrent people commonly attribute to it.
- peterpaid 5y agoProbability of the potential turning into reality. A high potential punishment in the parking ticket analogy is very unlikely with few or no "meter maids". Their point is that high potential punishment alone isn't sufficient, but that it must be likely or inevitable as well.