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These companies have demonstrated repeatedly that fines are just the cost of doing business. Doesn't matter if you charge them $1 million or $1 billion. They have still made significantly more than that from the crime.


The sum absolutely does matter. All you’re saying is the fines are too low


That's.. quite the contradictory sentence.


That's why fines should scale up geometrically with repeat offenses.




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