News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Privatizing Poverty. Parent comment

Re:Privatizing Poverty by skybrian on Friday August 24, 2018 @02:35PM (#17836873)
It does create jobs. And I didn't think the goal was to eliminate speeding, but rather to not do worse than average.

A progressive fine isn't going to solve inequality.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Privatizing Poverty by AnthonyMouse on Friday August 24, 2018 @02:41PM (#17836919)
> It does create jobs.

Poverty-level jobs, by definition, because the prerequisite to being a good fine-sink is having a low income.

> A progressive fine isn't going to solve inequality.

The problem is that it makes it worse by effectively imposing higher fines on middle income people than the super rich.

[ Parent | on HN ]