Especially since rates can be adjusted so that the public pays. I’m talking about this just becoming a cottage industry for some, including those for whom it is not equivalent to fifty dollars, with the recipient being all sorts of people funding all sorts of things
It reminds me of the Somali pirate business until the Captain Phillips fiasco. The pirates knew it was cheaper for the shipping companies to pay ransom then to try and stop the piracy, so they ran it as a business, treating the captured ships well and never harming crews. Eventually they overplayed their hand.
