alt Hacker NewsIf you are a collection of 5 companies with annual net income in the hundreds of billions of dollars, the debt is actually still their problem.
Everyone likes to repeat this tired cliche but skips all of the steps that would have to happen to get to that point.
If you have to pay $200k you can afford to spend $2k fighting it and hold it up a few days.
if Google had to pay a $2b bill they can spend $20m fighting it.
If they have to pay a $2t bill they can spend $20b fighting it
You can buy a lot more justice with $20b than with $2000