• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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      8 months ago

      Actually, as before it was:

      Does it? Because gestures broadly at the entire economy

      And the answer to that was yes. Fines serve a purpose.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah, the purpose they serve is to set a cost for breaking the law that is almost always lower than the profits gained by doing so.

        In order to encourage the economy we have.