Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by tempodox 954 days ago
My thought exactly. That number is way below a rounding error.
1 comments

Imagine the parking ticket for you would be a penny. It would be more profitable to park illegally than to pay for the parking fees, which is why parking fines are greater than the parking fee. Why do corporations have fines so low?
It's more like $50 if we assume the net hourly rate of a SWE to be $100. That's higher than the usual parking ticket of ~$15.
In Seattle they are about $50
Unless the fine is your car getting towed.
What city would choose the option that costs them money 100% of the time over just being able to mail you an invoice that's illegal to ignore