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by nerdponx 2560 days ago
It's just a speeding ticket. They are ahead.
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It's 3.67% of that number - if you were a software engineer making $100,000 / year in the US, it would be like paying a speeding ticket of $3670, which is an order of magnitude greater than most speeding tickets in the US
100,000 is gross revenue. Walmart's was $514B. 280M is then equivalent to $55.
$7.659B is the quarterly number, so divide your fine by four -> $917, which would still be quite an expensive speeding ticket, but within the max possible fines in my state.
It kind of would be like getting a ticket when you account the total cost with your insurance going up and that staying on your record for ~4 years.