It has to be worth, not just income. There's too many loopholes around "I don't have income I just have stock I use as collateral for a loan" or "I don't have income but my LLC happens to pay for all of my daily expenses".

But yes, all fines need to scale with the perpetrator. The more dollars you have, the less each dollar means.

A $100 ticket for parking on a crosswalk means nothing to a millionaire, but is potentially ruinous for someone living in poverty. It needs to hurt the same for everyone. The millionaire should have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars. They need to feel pain.

A lot of people are really shitty and operate at a very basic level of moral reasoning. It's just "did I get punished?".

A friend shared a memory of his drug dealer dad, when they were in vegas, lost a ton of money gambling and flipped the fuck out. Started smashing vases.

Security approached. He threw hundred dollar bills at them. They started handing him more vases.

Meanwhile, Google is illegally chopping down a forest to make space for a data centre. Those fines should be proportional to revenue too. That would teach them not to mess around with trees.

Has anyone actually got hit with big gdpr fines?

fines should be levied against the company itself while the c-levels get arrested for the crimes they orchestrated. if you or i committed even a fraction of the crimes that c-levels get away with, we'd be in prison for the rest of our lives.

Hmm. That's a very good point. And if corporations are "people", they should be the only people subjected to capital punishment.

Cause serious enough harm? Fuck you, you're ALL getting fired. Or at least everyone in management; the ones who actually do the work rarely have any agency in the situation, so yeah maybe don't punish them. At least minimize harm, maybe nationalize resources and break it up.