Re:Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:00PM
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Tragically, reasonable fees for bad behavior encourage the opposite behavior: all guilt evaporates and folks feel entitled to the behavior, after all they can pay for it. Famous studies of charging parent who were late picking up children from school, everybody started doing it and gladly paying.
Re:Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
by HillaryBriss on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @04:19PM
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Ok, but, could it be that the fee charged to parents was simply too low?
Can't we just view "the right to speed" as a service offered by the government and then apply the usual price and demand logic to it?
Re:Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @04:45PM
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I've had the same idea - a geometrically increasing 'fee' for road use depending on speed. Kind of like toll roads, but maybe even most roads. If you want to spend the money (and have the money, thus likely the deep pockets to compensate for damage) then go ahead!
Re:Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @11:23AM
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But that wouldn't satisfy the "if you speed you're Literally Hitler (TM) crowd" who want punishment for minor traffic infractions to be sized for deterrence rather than the actual harm to society.
e.g. if almost everyone got speeding tickets, but they only cost $15 and didn't involve any points against the driver's record or insurance premium hikes, people would simply pay up and probably speed less often. complaints about the injustice of speeding tickets would probably remain at current levels.