[swayvil]

Spam is definitely bad for society. So if 1 piece of spam is bad then a billion spams is 1B times as bad. That's a big factor. Probably getting near axemurderer levels of social damage.

Think about it in terms of years-of-life removed from society.

If the average axemurderer removes 10 middleaged (40 years remaining life) people then that's 400 years.

If spam eats 1 second that's 31 years. (1B secs)

Ok so about 3/40 axemurderer.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

Axemurderers have an expiry (the day they die/are put in prison), spam does not.

I think your estimation is grossly underestimated too, Nigerian prince scams trigger (insufferable) workplace discussions which take 5 minutes or longer, for upwards of 5 people, spam that causes people to spend money they otherwise wouldn’t increases the wealth gap, impacting lives for generations.