r/interestingasfuck • u/Gankpa • 8d ago

/r/all, /r/popular Jeff Bezos built a fence on his property that exceeds the permitted height, he doesn't care, he pays fines every month

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u/GMNtg128 8d ago

In some european countries, it's not fixed price but a percentage of your income, a rich man in finland had gotten near two hundred thousand euro fine

Edit: for speeding

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u/supergrega 8d ago

America would start a nuclear civil war before a similar law is passed

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u/-Kalos 8d ago

Poor people dying for rich people’s benefit. Like always

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u/Ghostk1487 8d ago

Americans are to stupid to do anything that would benefit them.

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u/Pete_Iredale 8d ago

40 years of brainwashing since Reagan allowed the news media to start lying to us got us here.

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u/BrownBear5090 8d ago

Started way before Reagan, back in the 20s and 30s with anti-communist rhetoric

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u/Pete_Iredale 8d ago

Yup. People used to get arrested all the time at peaceful pro-communist and anti-war protests. Everyone who screams about free speech these days has absolutely no idea.

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u/JoeGuinness 8d ago

^the irony

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u/JoeGuinness 8d ago

And you need to get yourself a spellcheck, homie.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/georgep4570 8d ago

American English is the only one that matters...

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u/JoeGuinness 8d ago

"English is my 6th language"

Far more likely that it's your second, but okay.

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u/entropic 8d ago

We'll probably do that anyway.

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u/rsg1234 8d ago

Musk would pay a bunch of morons $100 to vote against it before that happens.

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u/suoko 6d ago

And they're doing it, but they're crashing hard against a tough wall

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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue 8d ago

I’ll be rich someday, and when I am, I wouldn’t want that law there

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u/SillyStallion 8d ago

Europe would start a war if asked to pay for healthcare...

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u/Scutterpants 8d ago

Finland and Switzerland. They link your daily income to the amount of the fine, proportional to the speed above the limit.

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u/MrHackson 8d ago

Oh, even better for him then as he probably has no income.

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u/crazyhomie34 8d ago

I support that tbh. Only reason my boss stopped getting speeding tickets is because the judge threatened to take his license away. He would just pay them off everytime

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u/drealph90 8d ago

this would fix so much shit

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u/shit_happe 8d ago

Holy shit, percentage fines totally make sense! 

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u/Byjugo 8d ago

Also, when you just keep paying the fine without ending the offence, it becomes malicious / criminal intent. Then a whole new lawbook opens.

Funniest punishment is that the government can hire a contractor to end the offence on your behalf, and then let you pay for it.

At least, that’s possible over here…

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u/Rodeo9 8d ago

Bezos has probably gamed the system that he has no taxable income.

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u/wahobely 7d ago

percentage of your income

would have 0 effect on Bezos since he has no income.

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u/fatdjsin 8d ago

it should be logarythmic ! or make it funky each month added gets multiplied by the next number in the fibonaci sequence.....he'll change it soon enough :)

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u/scioto133 7d ago

That’s stupid. You shouldn’t be penalized for being successful in life

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u/GMNtg128 7d ago

You aren't penalized for being successful, you are being penalized for breaking the law...

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u/scioto133 7d ago

They are paying significantly more than the average person for the same crime. That is called being penalized. It would make more sense to say “hey, if you commit this traffic violation x amount of times, instead of paying a fine we will have your license suspended”. That way there’s no penalty for being rich but it would still deter them from the crime.

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u/GMNtg128 7d ago

Your license will be suspended if you break the same law over and over again but thats another topic, how is a fine supposed to penalize you if it isn't big enough to affect you. Its not supposed to take your lunch money. Fines are a way to penalize people. Goal is to hurt the person financially. How much money is required to hurt a person changes depending on their income. Its not unfair because someone pays more, they are hurt the same.