Government: of course monopolies don’t exist! they’re illegal. That goes against the American Way! We would never let a monopoly exist!
Also government: (pockets padded padded with all the bribe money that the monopolies give them) Anyway, we have decided that the Not-Monopoly you are trying to sue cannot be sued or found fault in for the instance of their customers’s bank accounts being bled completely dry via the third party access that occurred after the business deal between the Not-Monopoly and said third party. The collection and sale of your data itself was completely legal because we’ve spent the past several decades rewriting all the laws to remove customer protections and any wording that would put any sort of limitations on Not-Monopolies. The Not-Monopolies can do whatever they want because we said so. Also the banks also lost all that money, and we have to prioritize helping them out. You know, for the economy.
Government: And, like, after that, there just is not enough money left over to compensate you and every single affected customers for the loss of your entire life savings. You’re just asking for too much at this point. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and figure it out yourself. That’s the American Way, and you’re not acting very American right now, which we don’t like to see. Hurts our feelings. You know how it is.
Government: Anyway, that will be 75k for the court bill, which you have to pay now since you lost this case, and if you don’t pay it due to not having enough money then you’ll be taken outside and shot, and your grieving family will be settled with the debt plus the fee we charged you for not paying the debt when we told you to.
Government: Okay, good talk! I have to go sail on my favorite yacht now, it’s a new one, I actually got it as a present from the Not-Monopoly who you just lost that case to. Funny how that works. Anyway, I’m thinking of spending the weekend in Greece but idk yet — which is fine, it’s only Wednesday, I’ve still got time to decide. See you when they drag you back here for being too impoverished to be able to pay the court fee and we deny all seven of your applications for financial aid. We hope you die drowning in medical debt to our privatized insurance Not-Monopoly or something.
