> You can have all the weird lifestyle preferences you want that don't involve conspicuous waste of natural resources and accelerating anthropogenic climate change.
you’re right.
but I’m still not changing my habits. fuck the environment
> Fines should be designed to make it uneconomical to continue to reoffend.
Great. Fine me $1 million, and I will fight the case with lawyers, thus slowing down the public legal system for thousands of other legal cases, whether traffic related or otherwise.
IDK why this is downvoted. In practice everything is this way. Anything over a few grand is basically an invitation to lawyer up and fight. Whether it's a traffic fine or some local zoning BS this is always how it goes.
And by "IDK" I mean "I have some suspicions but they're not flattering to the community".
Most of society doesn't share most of HN's pro-jackboot disposition so there'd be warnings, appeals, etc, etc.
As a comparison point, it took a 20yr frog boiling exercise to turn DUI into a huge state revenue stream and that's at least backed by a crime most people can agree is fairly serious. To get the same for less serious crime you'd need to invest even more up front in propaganda because people aren't dropping dead from road infractions today like they were 40+yr ago so your ability to appeal to emotion is even more limited.
We can't even release the Epstein files. We don't go full jackboot on petty crimes with a victim. To think that there's public apetite to ruinously fine motorists out of large sums of money over petty victimless infractions is Luxury Space Communism (TM) type tone deaf lunacy.
And this is all assuming you get a bunch of friendly judges because this stuff is pushing it in terms of what the 6/7/8/14th amendments will tolerate.
> I so much hate it that we have built an economy where companies believe the best way forward is to cram ads into everything instead of building better products.
Blame the consumers.
They don’t want to pay for monthly subscriptions because “economy is tough”
Or maybe companies turned products that were one-time purchases into monthly subscriptions.
Or companies made it incredibly hard to cancel monthly subscriptions.
Or companies will continue to charge and auto-renew us even when we clearly don't use the product.
Or companies will unilaterally degrade our service or push us to lower tiers in order to better serve customers who aren't you.
Or companies will have us pay a monthly subscription, and then also sell our data to the highest bidder anyway.
Maybe many of these companies have never had our interest at heart, and people are tired of feeling constantly screwed over and seen as a revenue stream instead of customers.
No.
But for mega-tech CEO salary, I’d probably do exactly the same.
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