This is, like, the stupidest and most inefficient way for a government to make money.

I know it's fun and all to circle jerk about how greedy those darn bureaucrats are - but we're all aware they control the budget, right? They could just raise taxes.

I don't think they're fining companies... sigh... 10,000 dollars as some sort of sneaky "haha gotcha!" scam they're running.

Raising taxes does not solve the problem of getting the money out to the right people.

The right people? I just don't think CA, which has the fourth largest GDP in the world, is trying to target the likes of OpenAI for a measley fucking 10k.

Bingo.