Megacorprations should be fined $10 bn everytime they suggest poor people should give up or reduce their need for basic necessities of life.
Here's an idea, how about megacorps go without their fucking tax loopholes for a year or two? Use that money to pay for heating and cooling every single home in Australia for a decade.
@StarkRG The "solutions" we're offered!!
Be cold and hungry!
Work more hours!
Put more people in each house!
@StarkRG i mean progressive fines are the only working way to male it an actual penalty...
I.e. $16k in traffic tickets is a bad joke.for #Bezos since he makes that in share value within minutes...
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21120476/jeff-bezos-washington-dc-renovate-apartment-home-parking-tickets
@StarkRG penalties should be painful in saod cases, like the ones issued for illegally importing/smuggling cigarettes without declaring them in Germany:
400% fine + paying the taxes owed & the cigarettes get confiscated.
@kkarhan $16k could be appropriate for *one* parking ticket.
I once wrote a story which involved a small society (11 people) where punishments were decided on almost equally between the aggreived and the griefer. At one point someone winges about a proposed punishment and is reminded that a punishment that doesn't hurt isn't much of a punishment at all.
@StarkRG Or at least, a certain percentage of profitable.
Few things enraged me more last winter seeing the energy companies make record profits while using the invasion of Ukraine as an excuse to raise the prices for their customers.
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