For a person making $30,000 a year, a $1,000 fine could mean very significant impacts on their daily life.

For a person making $30,000,000 a year, a $1,000,000 fine may mean they can’t afford an extra Ferrari.

For a person “making” $30,000,000,000 a year, a $1,000,000,000 fine may mean they can’t… Buy another island? You still have $29,000,000,000 that you can do who knows what with. This is the entire GDP of some countries. I also don’t know if this one is a realistic example.

Anyway, proportional is nice, but really you need a progressive system to really match the weight of punishments, as far as impacting your daily life or happiness.

Because I can’t afford 120TB in SSDs…

I wish Linux was an option for me, but Adobe software is what has me stuck, and there’s no Steam pushing for that to be properly supported… And migrating my Lightroom catalog to another software would be an absolute nightmare.

I’m planning to stay active on Lemmy, but I am a bit worried. I feel like the engagement on here has dropped the last few days as Reddit’s traffic mostly recovered.

July will be another big test, so we’ll see.