Judging from her previous posts, I guess B had some sort of mental breakdown. Maybe too much stress, it often happens with hard deadlines. $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
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.
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.
That's half a millennium's income for the billion people on the planet who live on a dollar a day. There are plenty of folks for whom a few thousand dollars is life-changing.
There are many Americans for whom $1,000 would be actually life changing -- allowing them to escape the bizarrely restrictive chain of courtroom imposed debt found in places like Fergusson.
> but that's not really meaningful to most of the people posting here
not sure on what planet you are living on. Most people here don't make that kind of money in a year.
I'd bet the missing creator just moved to Canada.