Read a news article, by headline because really I don’t care enough to be bothered reading why. About a mother, who was denied home-at-work and had a child die over some circumstance, was awarded $22 million. Whether she gets it or not, doesn’t matter, what matters is that nobody should ever win that much in any case. Millions have been tossed around so fruitlessly in cases like these.
Should that mom deserve some form of compensation? Yeah, probably, but not millions. It doesn’t bring back the the child, in fact, money never really heals these kinds of wounds. If so, why isn’t anyone getting some of that money anyways?
That’s certainly a hot take. Watch a few legal eagle videos, the justice system in most countries are based on either incarceration or money. There’s not much more you can do to punish someone.
Civil suits can’t cause someone to go to jail, so literally the only option is owing money. If the perpetrator is wealthy, then it takes a lot of money to punish them. That money goes somewhere, and it’s typically the person who brought the suit, otherwise there’s no incentive to bring these kinds of lawsuits to court.
So… what’s the alternative? Just shrug and say there’s no way to resolve this, go about your day?
Doesn’t deserve that much money.
So rich people just don’t get punished then? If you have enough money so you don’t care about fines you can just do whatever you want?