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Is this intended to be punitive (as suggested by your "devastating amount" phrase), or is it indented to make-whole the injured party?

If industrial espionage sets back a company's R&D by a decade, you can't fix that with money. Throwing money at the problem won't magically get your research back. It won't magically get your market-leading position back after your competitors take advantage of your setback. And we're not even starting on what happens if the party doing the injuring goes bankrupt before paying all that is owed.

The idea that money is a magic panacea that fixes everything is completely wrong.



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