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    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You can’t fine him an amount he’d care about. Beyond a certain amount of wealth, fines are no longer a punishment or a disincentive.

      • magnetosphere @beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        In many cases, I would agree, but the article says

        If Twitter does not respond, it faces fines of $687,000 a day.

        We’re not talking about a single payment for a fixed amount. I think he’d actually care about this. It would add up fast if he tried to ignore it.

        • AnnaPlusPlus@midwest.socialEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          Google tells me his net worth is $234.4 billion. That’s enough money for 341,193 days of fines, or just over 900 years. So no, he probably won’t care

          • 6fn@kbin.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            Even if the fine were to reach half of what he spent on Twitter, he would have to pay them $687,000/day for longer than the average life expectancy in the healthiest country on earth (87 years). A billion is such an absurd number.