Comment by robocat
3 years ago
Equivalently every time you forget to pay for a parking ticket, and every other equivalent law infraction, you should be fined your total annual disposable income?
Maybe with some punitive disincentive on top I guess. If you have a ten percent chance of being caught, then fine you 10 years of your “profit” seems a good appropriation. Just make it a year’s salary - that is a fair approximation that everyone would understand. You certainly would learn to pay more attention to the many thousands of minor laws you need to personally adhere to.
Edit: I especially want to see some of those rich-ass software devs working for letters from ACRONYMS get taken down. I’m safe: I live in New Zealand and I can’t easily work at a letter of an ACRONYM.
IIRC Sweden (or one of the scandis) does exactly that, a parking ticket is based on a percentage of your gross yearly wage (or something to that effect, maybe the sticker price of the car?) rather than being a set cost, since otherwise those kinds of fines disproportionally target lower income individuals while it becomes a small hassle that the wealthy pay off and forget about.
Corporate fines should work similarly, any infraction no matter how small should be fined at a % of their cashflow. I think Apple, with their 2 Trillion(!!!!) Dollars can hire a lawyer or two to make sure they're not breaking any silly privacy laws, after all :)