StephenBuckley

It's like the author doesn't understand what failing a stress test does.

It cost him nothing for that DB connection to be lost. He's turning a profit.

Trying not to be snarky, but I think you missed the point.

It's easy to tack on the word "inherent" here, but it's misused. There's nothing inherently suspicious about authority. The Zeitgeist, though, is so strong that it's difficult to think of counterexamples, and easy to believe that how you perceive it now is how it's always been.