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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.
Look up the cap on fines per year. It's less than $2m.
I've consulted for healthcare companies where that is a literal rounding error on their bottom line.
They. Do. Not. Care.
Creating a cartel is "bad for business"? Are you sure about that?
No. No no no.
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.
Found an IP that got ransomwared: https://beta.shodan.io/host/40.112.148.234
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.