>> $182,000 don't make for a life changing hustle.
You're kidding right?
Even in the rich western world 182 grand is a massive amount of money for most people. A large number of people in our societies have negative net worth. Many are living paycheck to paycheck. An extra 2 grand a month for almost 8 years is very much lifechanging money, if you get away with it.
For most here, $182,000 is definitely not worth the risks. They have good secure jobs where they could save that over a few years, where taking the money would not cost just their job but their entire career. Right or wrong doesn't even factor in, taking that money and running it a bad business decision.
But there are others, dirt poor, who live off of less than $20,000 a year. Some live off even far less than that. They have no career. To them this is 10 years of payment with vastly little risk. It is nowhere near the as bad a business decision to take the money and run. In the more extreme cases, there is so much to gain with little to lose.
And this is completely ignoring those who don't make this much in their lifetime.
"First comes a full stomach, then comes ethics." -Bertolt Brecht
> A large number of people in our societies have negative net worth.
While this is true (for some value of 'large'), a lot of those people with negative net worth are by all indications very wealthy. You don't hit a net worth of minus 50 million by being poor.
True, and I didn't necessarily mean (for instance) homeowners with mortgages, though the house usually offsets that.
A lot of folks live with debt. A lot of folks don't make anywhere near Silicon Valley money even in a decent career, and many, many people don't have a career to speak of.
I have no idea of the personal situation of the person that actually walked away here, of course.
You're kidding right?
Even in the rich western world 182 grand is a massive amount of money for most people. A large number of people in our societies have negative net worth. Many are living paycheck to paycheck. An extra 2 grand a month for almost 8 years is very much lifechanging money, if you get away with it.