wolframhydroxide comments on You Can Tell Monopoly is an Old Game

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (5 children)

Indeed. If the punishment for a crime is a flat fine, then, to the rich, it is not a punishment, but a price

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.social 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Hardly. If the alcohol tax on a bottle of wine is €5 and the bottle is sold for €10, that's a pretty steep price. If the bottle is sold for €100 or even more, it's nothing.

But I understand that you were probably thinking about companies calculating spending & sales.

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[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

What? Tax is not a punishment. If a company finds that they can poison the environment and release PFAS into a local stream, but that they will be charged $12000 if they're caught, then all they have learned is that, for the potential price of $12000, they can purchase the right to not have to follow environmental regulation (and they'll only have to pay it if they're caught!)

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.social 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

Tax is not a punishment.

Are you replying to the wrong person? I specifically pointed out that they were thinking about something else.

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[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 day ago*

I was originally replying to the person who pointed out that flat fines are worthless. The luxury tax bit is irrelevant to what i was saying. My reply to you was trying to figure out why you were bringing luxury tax back into it, when the specific thing to which I was replying was about flat fines as a punishment. I still don't know what the heck you meant by "hardly"

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[+] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 day ago

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