It drives me insane how many people dont realise how often they break the law and that if the full force of it was ever applied life would basically be unliveable. Like between traffic violations, petty workplace theft, account sharing and piracy alongside how common it is to have been in posession of some illegal drug at some point in your life. People still manage to get away with thinking "criminals" are people who commit crimes not just populations that are surveilled enough to be routinely prosecuted
Just remembering that time when like half the Australian government were not eligible to be in government and none of them even realised
not only that, but because crime is penalized with fines there are ways in which society wouldn’t function correctly if everyone did follow the law.
think about how crazy that is. Parts of our society are structured so that if everybody did the right thing it would break the system.
off the top of my head i remember a debate in Santa Cruz when i lived there because they wanted to remove like 8 parking spots overlooking the beach to make that spot better for the public and i think safer for cyclists, and there was pushback from the city because those parking spots were metered and they needed the revenue from those spots
and everyone was like it’s 50 cents an hour on 8 spots, how much revenue could it be, and it turned out that what the city was relying on was the money from parking tickets on unpaid meters, which turned out to be quite a lot of money each year.
just one of the many ways that our system is designed such that crime is actually a necessary feature
