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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • 110% seems like it could be a middle ground between actually nuking the company into the ground vs. impose to little of a fine.

    They’re forced to give every cent back (hopefully that can find its way into actual customers hands instead of the government pissing it away) plus lose an additional 10% of whatever they made that is now a loss on the company financials. Shareholders wouldn’t like a loss on their spreadsheets and quickly fire whoever was in charge or sell. It’s bad for the business, the stock market, and the economy.

    It would quickly train the stock market to deter that kind of behaviour. But we need politicians who are not bought by these companies to be able to pose these strong fines across the board.

    10% loss on something on the scale of the likes of what someone like Apple or cough Tesla cough brings in on products would add up very, very quickly. More money back into people’s products going back into the economy in the form of more spending anyway, which is good, and more tax revenue that the government might one day learn how to spend efficiently and dilligantly, since the government would keep the 10% loss, I’m sure getting that 110% out of the company takes work, time, and spending anyway.

    Capitalism only works with extremely tight regulation. And humans can corrupt that regulation very quickly.










  • It’s not if you consider that the install base for Lemmy is still waaaaaaaay smaller than Reddit, it starts to make more sense. And if you ask almost any longtime user of Sync, the price is still worth it considering how many hours we will spend in this app. If I can get better value than a movie ($ per hour) then it’s so worth it. By the time the app dies you will have spent pennies.