You forget that the board is also full of slightly-more-official-looking guys wearing suits. Guys in suits often forget that there is more to life than appearances, and that there is a cold hard reality unaffected by spin. Ransomware is gonna ransomware regardless of how many boxes you check and how shiny your suit looks.
There's also a criminal liability aspect to it. I've worked for healthcare companies too and they do care, at least enough to have it in the conversation and to include the HIPAA officer in those conversations. Nowhere I have worked have they been flippant about it.
I agree with you that the cap is too low. It should cap based on gross or revenue. I suspect it's so that the smaller companies won't get destroyed by fines leaving the larger ones largely unaffected, but I'm speculating.
Turning down good deals is bad for a startup investment business, yes. In fact it's the worst mistake such a business can make. This observation is so commonplace that it's long been a cliché.
Every member of a cartel is motivated to defect, yes. The hiring cartel Facebook broke wasn't for business reasons, it was because Steve Jobs was mad about recruiters calling his people.
I make six figures and hardly work at all. As a dishwasher I used to bust my ass and make 7 dollars per hour. In my experience, the less you work, the more money you make. Everyone I've talked to in real life, who has worked both shitty jobs and high paying jobs, has the exact same experience.
I agree. I am paid more now than I ever have been in my life and I work less than I ever have. One of my roomates has worked in kitchens all his life and I assure you he works a hell of a lot harder than I ever did, yet makes a pittance.
Hitler was significantly more educated than most modern progressives. From wikipedia:
He read newspapers and pamphlets that published the thoughts of philosophers and theoreticians such as Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustave Le Bon and Arthur Schopenhauer. Georg Ritter von Schönerer became a major influence on Hitler. He also developed an admiration for Martin Luther. During his time in Vienna, he pursued a growing passion for architecture and music, attending ten performances of Lohengrin, his favourite Wagner opera.
It is a fallacy that murderous racists are simply uninformed, that they just weren't in school on that day in the fourth grade where your teacher tells you to be nice to people. Some of the authors he was acquainted with were vocally against anti-semitism. The most dangerous monsters are highly educated people.
I take issue with every sentence you wrote. "Highly educated"? I don't think so. "Some of the authors" - you mean Nietzsche, I guess. It seems likely he didn't read Nietzsche's books, but just the bits quoted in (anti-semitic) newspapers. Check out Chamberlain and Schönerer. The first thing you notice is the strong Nazi-type flavour of their thoughts. Wagner and Luther are notorious for their extreme anti-semitism. That first wiki-sentence comes to "He read the paper". My understanding is, on the street corners and cafes of Vienna in those days were a dozen different half-nutty political groups, and Hitler took a bit from every one of them. The stuff was in the air, if you stopped to breathe it in.
