Financial crime is something that is heavily enforced on an (inter)national scale.

Local transportation violations aren't enforced in quite the same way.

Yeah, but it's generally enforced by freezing your funds until you show up in court. If you've come up with an alternative, maybe just leave out the government-facing API that lets them freeze funds.

This will just mean that they get to write their "amazing journey" post from prison.

This is now how the banking sector works. Most of the newcomers like N26 and Revolut are pretty much just an average bank with modern technology. The reality however is that they don't have a sustainable business model. They offer bank accounts for free and keep bleeding cash because no one wants their premium accounts, presumably because people don't use them as their primary bank account and just as a middle man for easy access to Google or Apple Pay.

Uber is succeeding? Its finances don't think so.

It's really amazing how a company can run for so long on so much loss. IIRC Twitter has never turned a profit either, and yet there it stands

Twitter has made profit now. But didn’t for a while. I worked there until 2015 and the consensus was that they had enough money to continue operating at the then current loss levels for like 50 years.

It’s hard to visualize how much money these big tech cos are actually taking in investment. If you have a $B you can lose $10mm a year for one hundred years.

In English if you say "their lack of morality will lead them to have the eventual success of Al Capone" one is generally assumed to mean that the person under discussion will end up in Federal Prison, although also with the chance of running a highly lucrative criminal enterprise first.