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Researcher, author, information-junkie and iconoclast. Originally, my field of research was mainly technology, but over the years it has shifted to the areas of sociology, philosophy and real sustainability, especially in practice.

I'm the author of the book "Crash Course" - On Your Future in the Anthropocene. It's a common sense approach to real sustainability, collapse, ecocentrism and resilience...

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Big Money

Published on January 8, 2024

Last year, Big Tech companies ( ( ) , , , , and ) received about $3.04 billion in fines for breaking laws on both sides of the Atlantic. As of seven days and three hours into 2024, they had already earned enough revenue to pay it all off.

A little over a week of operations is all it would take if the companies tackled their fines one after another. If they each paid their fines simultaneously, Meta would be the last to finish after five days and 13 hours.

This shows how insignificant these fines are for companies whose revenues are often larger than countries’ GDPs. In fact, 2023 was the second straight year these five companies were fined over $3 billion(new window), showing that they view fines as nothing more than the cost of doing business.

https://proton.me/blog/big-tech-2023-fines-vs-revenue

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