I agree he fucked up bad enough to get fired and for some kind of punitive fine, but 84k worth of pension (the entire pension, which is itself a problem) is entirely too much. It completely pulls the rug out of the rest of his life, which is also when he’ll be most vulnerable and least able to push through hardships. That pension is also too little to truly retire on, maybe the old man has been on survival mode for a long time. Maybe. I was once poor enough that 15 dollars’ worth of an unexpected expense caused enough anxiety to make me want to recalculate my budget that month. I was in college with a minimum wage job and doing everything I could to save a dollar and still only keeping my head above water, relying on sharing a room for rent. Would I have risked my job? Hell no. But would I have taken 7$ from somewhere if I felt I could truly get away with it and I was taking it from some large organization that is guaranteed to stay running from government? Maybe. It might mean a dinner I really needed to keep going. It would still weigh on my conscience, but your brain and sense of self can change when you’re that vulnerable for that long.

It took many years for me to undo some of the effects that has on your sympathetic system of the brain. Still probably fuels some things.

I could easily see how someone could become callous to such small thefts as a wrong deed and even somewhat justified if they felt a part of an unfair system. Which is arguable. There’s plenty of people who try to take advantage or take the opportunity to knock you down as less-than because of your financial situation when you are that poor. Life is different. The world in which you live is very different. I don’t know every detail, all I know is it’s not as easy to judge as someone who doesn’t have or hasn’t had those hardships.

Sorry to belabor the point, but it’s also worth pointing out that even from a more pragmatic standpoint, we know that overly punitive sentences result in more recidivism across different types of crime, especially if you’re exacerbating the reason they might’ve done it in the first place.

Not that much over 7 dollars, get fucked

Still seems quite excessive

Ah yeah, I’m sure lack of due process in an authoritarian regime leaves freedom of speech and accurate reporting of power abuse from the state completely unaffected.

Without due process and unchecked power, Bukele’s regime are the new gangsters. You haven’t solved anything.

I’ll take your wife

but GrOwTh

What will we ever do without gRoWtH

World’s first mandelboobs - fractal porn enthusiast community incoming

Until then, I’ll be poisoning pigeons in the park

Don’t spread knowledge of grifters, the sooner they fade out of collective memory the better. The opposite gives them views and helps them.

No idea why you’re getting down voted. Ignoring issues with public transportation is only going to repel people who could otherwise be convinced it’s viable and also more likely that those issues are never addressed in the first place.

What about e-meters?

Yes. It looks stupid.

Hmm. This reaction has a very prescriptivist and strict attitude towards language… Hitler

We’re a key part of the war machine. We are gears of war.

Modern-day low-quality shoes are already kind of a walking subscription

Life’s short. Send it.

It’ll shock you, on whether it shocks you or not.

I also hate contaminated porn

One could argue, greed is a subset of malice, and spite isn’t mutually exclusive with any of it.