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It’s amazing how many problems are solvable simply by spending money.
by Sharlin 4y ago
It’s amazing how many problems are solvable simply by spending money.
- ThePadawan 4y agoA very Swiss attitude. Like that time in 2016 when a Swiss town paid a 290k CHF fine rather than house Syrian refugees [0]! [0] https://lenews.ch/2016/06/16/swiss-town-pays-instead-of-taking-refugees/ https://lenews.ch/2016/06/16/swiss-town-pays-instead-of-taki...
- jeffrallen 4y agoYes that's shameful behavior. Good thing there are 5000 other communes that take their social responsibilities seriously.
- sofixa 4y agoSimilarly in France there's a minimum percentage of social housing cities larger than X have to have, and some rich cities prefer paying the fine to actually building the required amounts of social housing.
- jeffrallen 4y agoIt's amazing how many problems are solvable when a society chooses to solve them.
- ThePadawan 4y agoNote that the Swiss railway is charged fines for lateness to be paid to the state - so while I wouldn't say it's impossible that they just went and decided to take these measures to prevent rail buckling proactively, it's just as likely that they did the cost vs. payoff math. So yes, society did solve this problem by electing officials who put those clauses into the railway's operating license - but there are a lot of steps in there that shouldn't be overlooked.