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You have the law in both Aus and Scandinavia wrong, but that’s been covered. There are a few reasons not to make fines scale overly aggressively, from the pers
by 1123581321 5y ago
You have the law in both Aus and Scandinavia wrong, but that’s been covered.
There are a few reasons not to make fines scale overly aggressively, from the perspective of a western government. They feel capricious and encourage expatriation, they punish (potentially hundreds or thousands of) innocent employees who want financial security, and they incentivize worse behavior. This last principle is counterintuitive but has been repeatedly discovered over the last thousands of years. An immoral person is incentivized to behave by a reasonable grade of punishments and will risk the worst behavior of all punishments are equally deadly or above a certain threshold.
Hopefully that answers your question; this is just an explanation.
- sharpneli 5y agoOk Finland is not in scandinavia but we’re all nordic countries and it works roughly the same. We have fully scaling fine. The concept is päiväsakko (literally day fine) that’s determined linearly by your net monthly income. Cops give you X dayfines. In code terms the formula is max(6, (net_monthly_income - 255)/60)); That means there is regularly some person in newspapers whining about their 30000€ speeding ticket (iirc the highest was 100k€ in 2004). In reality that’s just an acceptable way to brag how much you’re making.
- CamperBob2 5y agoAlso incentivizes unreasonably-low speed limits, which are not the net positive for road safety that many people think.