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    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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      For comparison, if you made $365,000 per year this would be the same as you paying 7 cents per day in a fine, or $25 per year.

      If a fine is less than the profit it is legal and the cost of doing business.

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      From the article:

      $100,000 per day for a country with ~5.4 million people is a lot. If even 20 percent used Facebook regularly, then that would still be 10 cents per user per day. It’s unlikely that Meta is generating so much profit per user - every day.

      This is a reasonable observation and I wonder what Meta would do once one of their services becomes unprofitable in a specific country. Anyway if you add Instagram and WhatsApp to the math, maybe they would still generate profits from the Norwegian userbase

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        I wonder if this is a big amount for Norway’s government. After 3 years you’ve got 100 million dollars. Not huge but you could build a nice hospital or something with that.

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      I don’t know where you’re getting that number but it’s definitely wrong. Their most profitable year so far was 2021, and they made $39.4 billion for the entire year. Source

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        So assuming things haven’t changed too much for them, this is about 1%. Barely noticeable.