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acjohnson55 on Aug 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lyft’s Radical Experiment in Charging for Free Par...

On a related note, I've often thought fines should be proportional to a person's means.

Grustaf on Aug 10, 2017 [–]

They sometimes are, at least in Sweden. And if you are sentenced to a fine in a court for a crime you're convicted of the fine is set to a certain number of "daily fines". The size of each is a proportion of your salary.

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