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Right: nobody, not even billionaires, can afford to do this ever again. Seems like a win condition to me.
by sollewitt 4y ago
Right: nobody, not even billionaires, can afford to do this ever again. Seems like a win condition to me.
- phantom_of_cato 4y ago
- gnu8 4y agoShould the amount of wealth someone can hoard be essentially unbounded, allowing them to become impervious to any civil consequences for their actions?
- phantom_of_cato 4y agoThat has nothing to do with the ridiculous argument made above.
- dang 4y agoAs you know, using HN primarily for ideological battle is not allowed here, regardless of what you're battling for. Since you're clearly doing this with this account, I've banned it. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- phantom_of_cato 4y ago[dead]
- cykros 4y agoExcept that's not what civil court is for. It's for obtaining redress for damages suffered. $10 million, or even $100 million, and I'd say these victims must have suffered a lot...but very well, maybe they did. $1 billion? This is an abuse of the court system, and is the sort of money large corporations get fined when they do something really bad. Facebook famously got hit for $5 billion over Cambridge Analytica in 2019. OJ Simpson, on the other hand, paid $70 million when a person actually died. Even with inflation, getting to $1 billion is stretching things well past the breaking point.