content: Google's annual revenue is over $130 billion. This is proportionately like penalizing a person who makes $100k per year with a fine of about 3 cents. So to understand this from Google's point of reference, this is the amount of money it could metaphorically drop while shuffling through its pocket, and not find it worth it to bend over and pick it up. Ever dropped some small change in a public place and just walked away? $40,000 is like two or three pennies to Google out of it's yearly revenue. Don't even suggest that it's punitive by some embarrassment criterion. Like they give a single fuck. They have a stature in the world on par commercially and politically with a superpower. The entire thing is just laughable.