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How much, exactly, is "society's" fair share of someone else's money?

This is the problem. There is this assumption that taxes are used to care for the destitute. Absolutely, some amount of taxes do go to that end.

However, I've worked enough government contracts to know that the vast majority of that money goes to providing middle-class incomes for people in government who otherwise would not be making that sort of money because of a distinct lack of intelligence, competence, or diligence.

If not submitting to having my income expropriated at the barrel of a politician's gun means I lack empathy then you are using a very strange definition for the word "empathy".

I dunno. That might go against the narrative that literally everything is subject to market forces except for labor. The only thing for which we can arbitrarily set a magical, minimum value for some reason.

So, taking this story at face value, I'd say the obvious: not his fault.

If your system is built in such a way that the production database can be nuked from the most junior developers command line, then that junior developer is definitely not at fault.

But this story just doesn't pass the smell test. I've worked in some sloppy, slipshod places and even in the worst of the worst dev shops there's no way this could have occurred.

Either this person found the most absolute, bush-league shop there is, or he or she or xhe is completely full of crap.