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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: Fines should be scaled based on the financial situation of the guilty party

Having static penalties for legal offenses unfairly impacts the poor. For someone working a minimum wage job, a $100 speeding ticket might mean having to give up food for a few days because their credit was already maxed and their paycheck isn't due for a week. Conversely, for wealthy individuals and corporations, fines are often a joke, or factored into the cost of doing business. Who cares if a company has to pay out a $10 million settlement if they made a billion dollars that year?

This system would be complex, and probably screw up at times. But when determining financial penalties, the courts should consider the guilty party's income, assets, and debt. For people in poverty, or businesses that are on the brink of collapse, financial penalties should be minimized, or alternative sentences considered. On the other hand, major corporations found to have violated the law in a major way - especially if they did so to increase their profits - should end up posting losses that year. Big losses. The kind of losses where the corporation has to sell stock or other assets in order to pay them. The kind of losses where even if the executives avoid prison time, the shareholders will be screaming for their heads. That will provide a genuine deterrent.
gpt
How would you fine a kid from a super rich family, but with no 'income' of their own?

This kid could either be fined basically nothing for his family, or on the other end of the spectrum if their family doesn't support them could be fined more than they could pay off.