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My 3-second search on the Sackler net worth puts them at $11 billion. It could be high or low. I don't care. Now here's the fun part. Put that $11 billion into an investment calculator with a 6% interested compounded annually for 15 years, and the result is...$26.3 billion. Take away that eye watering $7 billion they may finally have to pay and the poor, bereft Sacklers will have to figure out how they're going to get by on only $19 billion instead of the $11 billion they have today.
And before you say, "Oh, how will the poor Sacklers survive if all their money is invested?" Well, if they only invested the $7 billion for those 15 years with the same values as above, it would give them a meager return of nearly $17 billion instead, leaving them with a mere $10 billion more to figure out how to get by on, plus whatever is left from theire $4 billion of spending money for those last 15 years.
How is this anything but a simple cost of doing business? And how is this anything but making the penalty for making billions on the lives and health of millions of people as painless as possible for the Sacklers?