Because when you're poor getting screwed out of hundreds of dollars because Karen who has the ear of legislators thinks we need to be tough on on <class of pett

Because when you're poor getting screwed out of hundreds of dollars because Karen who has the ear of legislators thinks we need to be tough on on <class of petty misdbehavior> causes a cascading problem in which you have to choose who to stiff (landlord? utilities? phone bill?) this month, who to stiff slightly less next month, etc, etc as you get back on track. It's like perverse version of that 9-square tile puzzle with one tile missing where if you make any wrong moves your standard of living gets kicked down substantially and you spend months to years getting your financial stability back to where it was. Getting screwed out of 4-8hr of your time is much less likely to make your standard of living and financial stability slide backwards in a way that takes many months to a year to correct. Of course the majority of support for people who are in favor of anything other than the status quo comes from people who want petty stuff to be maximally life-interrupting so....