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I'm not an MBA, but I think it's way too early to attribute motivation to this incident.

• alkonaut 8y ago
  Reading the dialog I think it's fair to say that both a) the man was not quite well, and b) the only motivation he actually DID suggest was the stress of low wage. So there's that.
  • claydavisss 8y ago
    Dentists alsohave a curiously high rate ofdepression despite being very well paid Literally anyone can snap. The only deterrent is precrime.
  • GhostVII 8y ago
    He seemed to throw the minimum wage thing in as an afterthought though, not sure that was actually a significant motivation for him.
    • alkonaut 8y ago
      Yes, definite afterthought. Or perhaps rather a best a guess at an unknown trigger. It seemed he acted on an impulse. It’s like if my doctor asks me why I think my blood pressure is suddenly extreme. It would be the first time I reflected over it.
    • salawat 8y ago
      Occam's razor says he most likely meant what he said. If a program errors into a non-recoverable state, and I see something in the stack trace, odds are it had something to do with the issue. He showed intent to send a message. The fact he was about to end his life just amplifies it. Of all the things one could have focused on, that stuck out? Hardly dismissable. He knew where his life was going either way. Either because he would have ended it regardless, or because he knew that doing anything drastic enough to hurt the "people" who he saw as the source of his hardship would forfeit his ability to live any semblance of a normal life afterward.