It can be changed. If it had no/higher limit, the slider would move in greater increments, so less fine control.

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No, they meant 100k is 0.0071428571429% of 1.4b, and 26 is the same percent of 365k. Basically, if you made 365k a year and had an equal percentage fine, it would come out to less than 7 cents per day.