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Usually lowering a company's profits due to market competition produces value. Just stealing money does not produce value.


The stolen money don’t have a value to the thief?


The amount of value it produces for the theif is equal to the amount of value it takes away from the company


Generally much less, if you're taking into account all the wasted time/energy.


Million dollars stolen from, say, Bezos, is worth less than that to the thief?


We can have a discussion about ethics and utility if it's a starving person stealing from Jeff Bezos, but these ransomware firms are large-scale organizations just like the companies they're stealing from.


Sure, but it still doesn’t mean the money somehow “loose their value”. It’s just a money transfer between companies; a financial transaction, just a one that’s unlawful.




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