Another school of thought is that punishment should be proportional to the crime or harm.
Something isn't really a big deal, it doesn't make sense to stick it to a company.
This is better at balancing the public interest of legal compliance against the public interest in the product the company provides.
It's basically the same trade-off with set in criminal punishments in general. If we made it it the death penalty for jaywalking or littering, we would have a lot less of it. Seems like a slam dunk right? Why don't we just do that?
> Another school of thought is that punishment should be proportional to the crime or harm.
Maybe harm * wealth. Rich people could be fined proportionally more than poor people. Rich companies (turnover, market cap?) could be fined proportionally more too.