> The issue is that, at a certain scale, the risk of simply having an action be a net negative may be worth the potential upside I agree there, but if you're g

> The issue is that, at a certain scale, the risk of simply having an action be a net negative may be worth the potential upside I agree there, but if you're going to come up with a system of fines to incentivize not breaking the law, it needs to make sense. Just making it a huge numbers is likely to not even pass muster in the courts. A $10B company paying a $1B fine for sending out spam mail to 10 customers would be seen as "cruel and unusual punishment".