[gnode]

> Unless of course, a company makes a decision that harms people, animals accounting for future reparations.

To clarify, I was suggesting this case; that a company deliberately starts or continues a business which physiologically harms people, whereby these people are compensated as an ongoing cost of doing business, as opposed to a fine for desisted wrongdoing.

That is, I think, a truer analogy to what is being proposed with this data dividend. Granted, it breaks down at congenital disorders.