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San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code (www.businessinsider.com)

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San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code::The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces.

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[–] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gotta love that if you have enough money you can just do the thing you want to do, and if it's illegal the government will simply ask you nicely to fix it later, maybe even fine you an amount of money that's at least on order of magnitude lower than the profits you made from it.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I agree there's a problem with corporations and wealthy people treating fines as a mere cost of doing business, but in situations where there was neither malicious intent nor actual harm, it's problematic to create a legal minefield with harsh penalties. The goal of regulation should be to gain compliance rather than punish trivial noncompliance. Of course one might argue that something that does no harm ought not be forbidden at all.

[–] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

For a case as benign as this that makes a lot of sense but the attitude of entitlement to projects that generate capital is wild, and not doing something as simple as getting the building permits before you start building is really emblematic of that.