Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral
Eldritch@lemmy.world 1 week agoAbsolutely. Honestly fines should generally be abolished. Because it’s fine is nothing but the cost of doing business for the wealthy. However if they had to go to prison or actually start sacrificing some of their own time then shit gets real.
Reyali@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Unless fines become a % of a person’s wealth. Make everyone feel it equally.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 1 week ago
In principle, yes, but hiding wealth is also like Rich Bastard 101 stuff.
BrightCandle@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Wealth based fines would be extremely based. Most people would pay nothing and the wealthy would be paying a heck of a lot more. Which is why it will never happen its all about punishing the workers.
entwine413@lemm.ee 1 week ago
If we’re doing percentage based fines, that would pay for forensic accounting.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 1 week ago
True enough, but you’d still be playing legal whack-a-mole because by the letter of the law, you could still be legally relatively poor but have access to an insane amount of money in lots of ways.
errer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Rich people should be fined a higher percentage because they can afford it. A $10 million dollar fine for someone with $100 million doesn’t hit as hard as someone with a million getting fined $100k.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I was gonna suggest this. Norway or Denmark do this for speeding tickets and it’s very effective.