That’s certainly a hot take. Watch a few legal eagle videos, the justice system in most countries are based on either incarceration or money. There’s not much more you can do to punish someone.

Civil suits can’t cause someone to go to jail, so literally the only option is owing money. If the perpetrator is wealthy, then it takes a lot of money to punish them. That money goes somewhere, and it’s typically the person who brought the suit, otherwise there’s no incentive to bring these kinds of lawsuits to court.

So… what’s the alternative? Just shrug and say there’s no way to resolve this, go about your day?

Doesn’t deserve that much money.
So rich people just don’t get punished then? If you have enough money so you don’t care about fines you can just do whatever you want?