seagate violated a US export ban by shipping drives to huawei - so they get a fine.

so you can break export laws for a fee, then?

interesting.

@Viss violation of any law that is punishable by a fine is only a deterrent to the poor.

@Lightfighter @Viss

Would you say the same if the fine scaled linearly with income (or some combination of income and wealth)? (I'm curious if there's something still broken in those models.)

@robryk @Viss Yes. Millions of dollars a year are spent so that Billionaires can "officially" have no income.

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... and even if income tax gets paid on that income, for out purposes here it'd matter _who_ notionally pays that tax. Thanks.

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