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I have worked with people kind of like this. They are senior developers can do software anywhere, so go ahead and threaten them. It won't matter.

They do it for you because they enjoy the work. Plenty of others want them. They do need money, but 15 other people will give it to them if you won't.

"Fact is stranger than fiction."

I had a coworker whose very well-compensated husband told her she had to get a job to pay for her extravagant vacations. They paid cash for cars, etc and she had been a homemaker for a few years and they had no kids. But her penchant for spending a month in places like Bali was more than he was comfortable with.

She got a job. She totally took a month off to go to Bali.

I used to read this blog but it became clear a few years ago that most of the scenarios were phony.

Yeah I was surprised this made it to the front page, it looked like an obvious straw man or slow pitch / setup to me, no evidence of realism in how it is written