[JumpCrisscross]

> particularly telling of a billionaire's mindset when the fines are too small to matter

It’s telling that billionaires are human?

Fines being too small to matter are a phenomenon across the income spectrum. From delivery drivers dancing with New York meter maids to American tourists ignoring overseas traffic rules, the notion that inadequate fines stop deterring and become merely a nuisance is well know.

[idle_zealot]

Sure, but the deterrence these people are actively opposing exists to stop them from rendering the area unlivable for everyone. They know this and don't care, and are working to be allowed to ruin the world. That's what's telling.

[fl0id]

it's telling that he only sees effectiveness in what he wants. these rules are there for environmental protection, and in a worst case scenario, a fine is not gonna bring back the clean soil, or whatever was done.

[terminalshort]

The clean soil in downtown Las Vegas?

[fragmede]

It's not like there's a canyon or river or lake nearby that is of any size or goes anywhere.

[lucianbr]

Yeah, imho lots of people need reminding that billionaires are just regular joes with a very large bank account. With all the regular joe's faults.

Would be useful to remember that if Musk or Bezos say something, it may have the same chance of being right as what a delivery driver would say.

[Ekaros]

Or on average less empathetic and moral than regular joes... It is pretty hard to get to be billionaire without at least something average people would consider immoral.

[majormajor]

Fines are usually going to be too small to matter in a world with limited-personal-liability for corporations.

IMO his statement is disingenuous at that higher level. It's telling that billionaires propose things that wouldn't personally cut into their liquid assets, but instead would come out of a company that shields them from personal responsibility.