Yeah - everyone is shitting on the top 1% here in Germany until they realize that half the population here makes it into that percentile and suddenly it's the 0,1% that's the problem.
It's all about putting the blame on someone else so you don't have to question if you might be a little bit responsible, too, with your lifestyle...
If the fine is not a fixed amount but actually gets more expensive the more money you have it actually is quite nice though
Always enjoy those stories about millionaires paying some big sums for speeding tickets in Switzerland
It's really stupid how many people are a sucker for punishment so much that they don't care if they get it wrong a couple of times...
What happend to "Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"?
If you pirate stuff they can sue you to the ground but if a fine is not related to total income or wealth it's just something to be ignored.
Can't understand why not more people lobby for fines to be proportional in general...
I'd guess a police officer is seeing more than 50 random people a day though which makes it a daily occurrence to be in contact with people carrying which actually strengthens my point
What could be a possible explanation for the lower football turnout?
Can't have the already well-off children go without their steady income that they didn't have to work for...
Ah so it's just really shitty to reach from Hannover/Braunschweig/Wolfsburg/Magdeburg - also it seems that there is no good connection to the whole Ruhr area
Case in point "luxury" clothes that cost insane amounts of money just because they have labels printed on them for everyone to see and not because.the fabric is particularly great.
Sure it's good quality but not better than what you get for half the price and not even close to the custom tailored stuff the really rich people wear...
Really don't understand how people spend a fortune to walk around advertising for Gucci, LV, etc...
why else would this be one of the only countries where officers are lethally armed around the clock
Because it's also the only country where many citizens are lethally armed around the clock I'd guess
If you stop a random person in traffic in Europe for routine control then it's extremely unlikely that they have a gun in their car and even less likely that they will pull it on you.
If you are permanently having to think about scenarios where random people pull a gun on you because it's not a very unlikely situation to happen then it's not unreasonable to expect certain paranoia to start to form...
While the stats for "people killed by police" are always shown around I'd guess that the "police killed by citizens" also is much higher in the US.
Gun control is the only solution that even has a chance to remove this spiralling violence of trigger happy cops imho
Very interesting read
I was talking about the global 1% since that's usually what those kind of stats are aimed at