<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>Large? Excessive? Yes. Insane?  No.  The system isn&amp;#x27;t just about compensation.  The amount needs to be high enough to actually influence the wrongdoer, to dissuade repeat behavior.  Maybe this jury thought this the smallest number that would cause Tesla to make actual changes to its workplace.&lt;p&gt;I do chuckle at how much money from each subsequent tesla sale will be going to pay down this lawsuit.  127mil &amp;#x2F; 500k = 254$ per car for a year.  Given the price of a new Tesla that doesn&amp;#x27;t actually seem very big, and will certainly be reduced on appeal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>trabant00</author><text>Nobody wants to touch this story with a comment in 3 hours? I wonder why.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll go ahead and say that if no important detail is left out of the story, 137 millions being awarded for verbal abuse during 1 year of employment is insane and clearly shows why the company has mandatory arbitration agreements.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla must pay $137M to ex-worker over hostile work environment, racism</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/tesla-must-pay-137-million-to-ex-worker-over-hostile-work-environment-racism.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nwiswell</author><text>These jury awards are usually reduced at appeal.&lt;p&gt;Some examples:
 &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;idUSKCN1UA2CH&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;idUSKCN1UA2CH&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.morellilaw.com&amp;#x2F;the-biggest-injury-verdict-reductions-of-2020&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.morellilaw.com&amp;#x2F;the-biggest-injury-verdict-reduct...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>trabant00</author><text>Nobody wants to touch this story with a comment in 3 hours? I wonder why.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll go ahead and say that if no important detail is left out of the story, 137 millions being awarded for verbal abuse during 1 year of employment is insane and clearly shows why the company has mandatory arbitration agreements.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla must pay $137M to ex-worker over hostile work environment, racism</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/tesla-must-pay-137-million-to-ex-worker-over-hostile-work-environment-racism.html</url></story>