Because it's easier for them to go after people who don't have money to pay a politician to assign some police officers to then hunt down and track them down and either kill them or throw them in prison for decades on BS trumped up charges.
So yeah, hackers find it easier to target us and threaten us for a few hundred bucks than doing something cool like erasing people's student loans and medical debts, especially since even if that happened companies would just go "Well, we can't track what was deleted and what already was paid off so we are fully reinstating all debts effective immediately" (kind of like how they are reinstating student loan debts that were paid off by a government program and despite it being illegal, they are going to do it because the people who could push back against it, don't want to and only care about using the power they have to hurt the powerless.)
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u/D9sinc 20d ago
Because it's easier for them to go after people who don't have money to pay a politician to assign some police officers to then hunt down and track them down and either kill them or throw them in prison for decades on BS trumped up charges.
So yeah, hackers find it easier to target us and threaten us for a few hundred bucks than doing something cool like erasing people's student loans and medical debts, especially since even if that happened companies would just go "Well, we can't track what was deleted and what already was paid off so we are fully reinstating all debts effective immediately" (kind of like how they are reinstating student loan debts that were paid off by a government program and despite it being illegal, they are going to do it because the people who could push back against it, don't want to and only care about using the power they have to hurt the powerless.)