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The "fine" is 9 billion dollars.

• jwestbury 4y ago
  Against a company which makes 6-7x that in yearly profits, that's still not an effective deterrent.
  • tenebrisalietum 4y ago
    1/6th or 1/7th of profits is significant. 9 million dollars could be ignored by a company making 54,000 or 63,000 million dollars, but 9,000 million is a lot.
  • drstewart 4y ago
    Exactly. That's why you're arguing for fines against people to be significantly more than 1/6th of their net pay, since harsher punishments are effective deterrents? Parking tickets should start at 50% of your yearly take home income. Didn't feed the meter an extra quarter? $10k minimum sounds fair.
    • yladiz 4y ago
      Companies aren’t people (even if they are legally defined as such) so you can’t treat the way you fine them equally.
      • drstewart 4y ago
        Stating something isn't proving it (even if you learned it as such), so you can't just state something as fact without proving it.
        • yladiz 4y ago
          What?
    • pessimizer 4y ago
      > fines against people to be significantly more than 1/6th of their net pay Pay is not profits, it's revenue.
      • drstewart 4y ago
        Look up the word net
        • counttheforks 4y ago
          Look up the word gross