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Re:New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud... by rurp on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:28PM (#30367304)
Given how prevalent and regressive fines are I really don't understand why there isn't more noise about changing them. A $350 fine could be trivial for one person and life crushing for another. Something like mandatory community service would actually cause rich assholes some pain.

Of course there are probably plenty of ways to game community service so there would need to be strict requirments, or maybe there's a totally different system that would be more fair.

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Re:New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud... by jakelazaroff on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:38PM (#30367402)
Some countries use day fines, which are proportional to one’s income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine

As to why we don’t switch to a system like that: the people with the power to change it are the ones who benefit from the inequitable status quo.

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