Post #2299866

This is correct on an order of magnitude no single person can really wrap their brains around. Alphabet (the parent company of Google) made $121 billion in 2025. Not gross revenue—net profits ([source](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOGL/alphabet/net-income)). This “fine” is about 0.1% of what the execs and shareholders *take home*. That cost, in their revenue, wouldn’t register as any change within their accounting. To call it a “rounding error” would be a huge exaggeration.