In Finland, speeding tickets are calculated based on your income - causing some Finnish millionaires to pay fines of over $100,000. Source
This is what “equality” looks like in that liberal fairy tale land of Finland. They punish you proportionately to how successful you are. Sounds really “fair.”
Except… it is fair? Because it’s proportionate. I don’t get what’s difficult about that. An impoverished person paying $400 dollar fine isn’t the same as a millionaire paying the same amount. For the poor person, $400 dollars could mean starving. Would you really claim it would have the same consequence for a rich man? Would it even be noticeable to him, while the absence of food in their stomach would be glaring to a poorer man? Would it be fair for a man to starve for the same crime as a man that would be having a three course meal?
By taking income into account, it allows the impoverished able to still survive while paying any fines they may incur. And, ultimately, while $100,000 dollars would be noticeable to a millionaire, they would still get by. And, assuming the law is properly implemented, they would be paying the same equivalent of their yearly income that a poorer person would. That’s what makes it fair. They would be impacted the same way - but you are looking at the amount rather than the equation.
Also, it’s important to make sure that even the rich would pause at the cost of a fine. They need to fear the law just as a poor man does.
Oh no… rich people facing fines that might actually make them consider not doing illegal things because the punishments might actually hurt them… how unfair… -V
Finnish person here. Our speeding ticket system owns and only people who bitch about them are people who wanna break the laws - the loudest whiners are the rich people who think they can just pay their way out of trouble and that’s why we have laws like that.
400 dollar ticket.
Person making 10 dollars an hour: “Fuck, I better slow down”
Millionaire driving a Jaguar: “LOL 400 DOLLARS, FUCK THAT, NYOOM”
Compared to a proportional ticket.
Person making 10 dollars an hour and must pay 400 dollar ticket: “Fuck, I better slow down.”
Millionaire who must pay 100,000 dollar ticket: “Fuck, I better slow down.”
Like wtf. Some people have been so brainwashed by capitalism and worship of the rich that they literally can’t tell the difference between fairness and unfairness anymore.
It IS fair. The fact that it flies in the status quo so much should make you think about that status quo.
i’m always so amazed when i hear americans say shit like “healthcare is a privilege, not a right”. like how do you reach a point in your life where you think people deserve to die because they can’t afford healthcare. what in the actual fuck is wrong with you.
By the way if you call the cops on a homeless person for panhandling or sleeping you’re evil tbh. Like there is no reasonable justification for doing that ever and there’s no justification for any cop answering such a call tbh. I hope everyone who’s participated in that can never peacefully sleep until they make things right
Same goes for people who call the cops on homeless people for “loitering” or “trespassing” (AKA sleeping or living their fucking lives without a house)
Shocking News Update: giving workers a living wage that actually allows them to afford basic necessities while being able to save to treat themself to something nice sometimes has not lead to the destruction of the economy and the downfall of civilisation as we know it
“Surrender Donald” – Gay activists rally outside Trump Tower in New York, protesting the city’s tax breaks for luxury real estate developers while thousands of people with AIDS sleep in the streets. Oct. 31, 1989
“Hillary Clinton writes that the residence was staffed with “African-American men in their thirties,” since “using prison labor at the governor’s mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs.”“
like that’s literal slavery oh my god i’m gonna vomit, sadly i’m not surprised in the fucking slightest just extremely disgusted
People think Hillary Clinton, then First Lady of Arkansas, implemented this system? Not only does a First Lady have no control over this, but it was her husband who was the actual Governor. Sexism yet again. Holding the woman accountable for her husband.
These were state of Arkansas employees. Not direct employees of the Clintons.
Has this person even been to Arkansas? Apparently not.
Lots of states have used prison labor for decades. Again – these were state of Arkansas employees. Not direct employees of the Clintons.
Stop holding Hillary accountable for Bill being Governor.
she isn’t some helpless victim she quite literally could have just refused the slave labor and used her money and influence to get actual fairly paid labor instead. kek.
