• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    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.org
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      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.

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        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

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          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.