Your first paragraph is totally ridiculous. Maybe you started with $0, but maybe that was 30 years ago and losing all your savings from then till now, including

Your first paragraph is totally ridiculous. Maybe you started with $0, but maybe that was 30 years ago and losing all your savings from then till now, including your home, is more than an inconvenience. If you have dependants then that loss could directly impact their lives and especially their education – what if some of that money had been for a college fund? In the US especially, and also to some extent in Europe, having less money affects what medical care you can afford, so it actually can cause physical harm. At the extreme end of things admittedly, these changes could put strain on relationships which could even mean you really do lose loved ones. I actually do agree it's unlikely that Oracle will follow through with their implied threat, but let's not pretend that their threat is meaningless.