So I meant a percentage/time-based recurring fine -- as in x% of revenue for y quarters kind of fine. I do agree with you though, just like the australian news

So I meant a percentage/time-based recurring fine -- as in x% of revenue for y quarters kind of fine. I do agree with you though, just like the australian news outlets fining FB+Google thing, governments are figuring out that international mega corps are also a good source of income by way of fines. I fear that even this is also short sighted -- even when imposed by static fines like this, the 1.3B number looks huge, but what we can't see is whether it was actually economical for Amazon to do this (I think it was), and the thing is the companies that were destroyed as a result are much harder to re-create in an environment where Amazon still has the overwhelming amount of marketshare/monopoly power. Eventually, if this continues and Amazon decides to hit back, the lack of natural competition (due to fines that came too little too late in regards to anti-competitive behavior) may put the nation state(s) between a rock and a hard place.