I love the way the Swiss fine speeding. That’s how it should be. It shouldn’t be $50 for everyone. The more you have, the more you should pay.
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this, even with license points schemes.
once you are rich enough, driving is just for fun, and them losing their license is barely a minor inconvenience.
a fine should hurt them the same way a fine hurts a poor person
If the only penalty is a fine, it just means that's how much it (sometimes) costs to do the action.
I was just thinking about consequences for driving infractions the other day.
Fines don't really work, unless they target poor people, since any amount of money hurts their QOL.
A rich asshole doesn't care if they are fined $100, $1000, or $110,000, because it doesn't impact their lifestyle.
What we need to do is punish rich drivers with time. Force them to do volunteer work and community service, in addition to a fine (to pay back the municipality for enforcing these laws).
A few months or years of community service hurts the rich more than a fine (of any amount) ever could.
Speeding laws are a patchon solution. We should build streets that are impossible to drive unsafely instead. (Easiest way to do this is with public transit)
Hop Swiss!