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Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes (www.yahoo.com)
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[–] vladmech@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Unless it’s doing substantial harm to the company’s bottom line, and at least a few execs go to jail, this is just another line item for doing business.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

This. Need harsher consequences

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean if you were charged like $2 if you got caught speeding 30mph over the limit, would you feel like you need to stop? Hell, a better analogy is probably what, 5 cents?

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

More like if you were able to charge a $5000 higher delivery fee for being fast and get charged $2 for speeding, and they wait til you are finished with the delivery to mail you the ticket.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

And this is why dayfines are fair and a food idea.

Especiqlly if there is no upper limit on how expensive a single dayfine can be.