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by samstave 682 days ago
I think we should have a national penalties fund that every single corporate penalty goes into and it specifically can only be spent on various categories of things that are for the public good, but it by popular vote in each category - (Like how we vote for new features in a game, like Manor Lord, ironically enough in such an Oligarchy as it were)...

Anyway - for each industry from which the violations occur, those resources go into these buckets where no politicians allowed - and voting will havent for a GovFundMe Campaign - and it gets funded and every single action on that thing is trackable actively by everyone who voted for the thing and a tracking status board for the implementation of them. And who needed to be shamed in order for that GovFundMe campaign to be completed.

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That sounds interesting, but make sure it's only funding one-offs.

We don't want a repeat of lotteries funding schools, where that money becomes expected and then the government doesn't give as much direct funding.

> That sounds interesting, but make sure it's only funding one-offs.

> We don't want a repeat of lotteries funding schools, where that money becomes expected

Making it exclusively one-offs doesn't address that problem at all. What it does is aggravate the problem of people going out looking for someone they can fine to cover their budget.

A construction company's entire business consists of one-off jobs. They expect the money to come in anyway and they're built to rely on the fact that it will. Other organizations funded through one-offs are no different.