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Given how prevalent and regressive fines are I really don't understand why there isn't more noise about changing them. A $350 fine could be trivial for one pers
by rurp 5y ago
Given how prevalent and regressive fines are I really don't understand why there isn't more noise about changing them. A $350 fine could be trivial for one person and life crushing for another. Something like mandatory community service would actually cause rich assholes some pain.
Of course there are probably plenty of ways to game community service so there would need to be strict requirments, or maybe there's a totally different system that would be more fair.
- jakelazaroff 5y agoSome countries use day fines, which are proportional to one’s income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine As to why we don’t switch to a system like that: the people with the power to change it are the ones who benefit from the inequitable status quo.