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		skybrian on Aug 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Privatizing Poverty It does create jobs. And I didn't think the goal was to eliminate speeding, but rather to not do worse than average. A progressive fine isn't going to solve inequality.

AnthonyMouse on Aug 24, 2018 [–]

> It does create jobs.

Poverty-level jobs, by definition, because the prerequisite to being a good fine-sink is having a low income.

> A progressive fine isn't going to solve inequality.

The problem is that it makes it worse by effectively imposing higher fines on middle income people than the super rich.

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