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Any law where the penalty is a fine only exists for the poor. Any regulation where the penalty is in the millions only exists for small businesses.
by planetsprite 4y ago
Any law where the penalty is a fine only exists for the poor. Any regulation where the penalty is in the millions only exists for small businesses.
- Plasmoid 4y agoI guess that's true. If you consider laws to be strictly transactional then you can totally do the crime if you're willing to do the time. I'm just not convinced by the idea that any penalty less than death isn't a penalty.
- arrosenberg 4y agoLots of distance between small monetary fines and a death penalty. I would settle for executives and board members going to jail when they do crimes.
- kevingadd 4y agoPenalties that scale off the offender's income/revenues work a lot better. They're common in some countries.
- nix0n 4y agoAny penalty less than the profit, isn't an effective penalty, and won't act as a deterrent. The Securities and Exchange Commission (USA) has a history of giving million-dollar fines for crimes that produced billions in profit and/or took billions away from victims. And the lack of deterrence has been reflected in the actions of the US financial industry.
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