No one expects them to actually pay the fines with the exact pile of cash they've made in revenue this year (which, of course, isn't actually a pile of cash).

No one expects them to actually pay the fines with the exact pile of cash they've made in revenue this year (which, of course, isn't actually a pile of cash). You're missing the point, that the fines are nowhere large enough to be consequential. If the fines were anywhere close to large enough, the company would no longer able to operate their criminal business model profitably, and I would shed zero tears, even if it meant complete failure of the business. Any fine that merely reduces profit is effectively just a tax.