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in Finland the traffic tickets scale by income, there are speed cameras everywhere, and so almost nobody speeds. it's just that simple

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It's pretty neat. Fines and the like kind of break into two parts - restitution: which would be roughly a fixed amount to compensate society for the costs you have externalized into them - punitive: an additional (reasonably scaling) value meant to deter bad behavior we consider anti-social