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$44B is peanuts for a soon to be trillionaire
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Doesn't make it a good deal. Just means he can afford to make bad deals.
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This is part of what people miss about poverty - it’s incredibly unforgiving.

By contrast, the more money you have the more mistakes you can afford to make

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When you are the richest man in the world, you can afford to do things out of spite. But we won't know - he got rid of the people who could have fined him.
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It just seems highly unlikely the USG would issue a >$44Billion dollar set of fines to anybody.
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