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by fallingknife 724 days ago
Or you could be smart and do no inspections at all and say whoever reports it gets 20% of the fine.
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Sure, and then hire someone to handle all the reports from people who don't understand the rule, while real reports are inhibited by warehouse owner propaganda such as "your reports won't be confidential" or "a 20% cut of this fine won't cover your lost career" and the more basic fact that almost nobody will know your law exists unless you launch a publicity campaign.

Fiddling economic knobs to try to indirectly get the invisible hand to do what you can do is a terrible enforcement strategy.