• the commentariat pundit class absolutely loses their mind with alarmist media stories of non-US countries transparently fining people scaled by their income, but silently accepts opaque, profiteering shit like this as innovative.

    • TommyCatkins [none/use any]@hexbear.net
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      29 days ago

      Well yeah, because surveillance pricing targets poor people to squeeze every dollar out of them while the wealthy get off easy. Income based fines unfairly target the wealthy for being successful, while surveillance pricing justly punishes the moral failing of being poor.