i dunno why people are confused about why cask of amontillado is catching on, it’s easily poe’s funniest damn story
dude says at the beginning “man. i hate this fucking guy. i’m the pettiest bitch of all time. i’m gonna get him”
and then his friend is so drunk that he’s like sure man! i’ll go into your weird Hell Cellar for some dope ass amontillado
and then he just gets fuckin walled in there with no twist at all. the twist is that the protag ended up doing what he intended to do while being completely suspicious and not at all hiding his animosity. and the clown guy is a fucking rube and had every chance to NOT die and didn’t take them. it’s fucking funny
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In Finland, speeding tickets are calculated based on your income - causing some Finnish millionaires to pay fines of over $100,000. Source
This is what “equality” looks like in that liberal fairy tale land of Finland. They punish you proportionately to how successful you are. Sounds really “fair.”
Except… it is fair? Because it’s proportionate. I don’t get what’s difficult about that. An impoverished person paying $400 dollar fine isn’t the same as a millionaire paying the same amount. For the poor person, $400 dollars could mean starving. Would you really claim it would have the same consequence for a rich man? Would it even be noticeable to him, while the absence of food in their stomach would be glaring to a poorer man? Would it be fair for a man to starve for the same crime as a man that would be having a three course meal?
By taking income into account, it allows the impoverished able to still survive while paying any fines they may incur. And, ultimately, while $100,000 dollars would be noticeable to a millionaire, they would still get by. And, assuming the law is properly implemented, they would be paying the same equivalent of their yearly income that a poorer person would. That’s what makes it fair. They would be impacted the same way - but you are looking at the amount rather than the equation.
Also, it’s important to make sure that even the rich would pause at the cost of a fine. They need to fear the law just as a poor man does.
