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UPDATED: Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia tweeted Friday that StreetsLA would be fining Universal Studios $250 for trimming trees without a city permit. He also said that “outdated l…

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[-] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

$250? Maybe if it was a family in the poor part of Los Angeles that had committed the offense. NBC Universal makes $250 in less than a minute I think.

[-] FermatsLastAccount@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

NBC is owned by Comcast who made $5,370,000,000 in net income last year. That'd be $14,700,000 every day, $610,000 every hour. So just over $10,000 per minute. They made $170 every second.

[-] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

And they can't afford to pay them more?

[-] FermatsLastAccount@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They can, but “outdated laws limit fine amounts and aren’t equitable across offenders, especially big corporations”

[-] fartsinger@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Well then they wouldn't make $170 a second.

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