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Hmm, you ever been to India? Alot of developers there are forced into development by their families and don't get paid much while taking care of not only their immediate family but their retired father and his family. Granted what he did was wrong, I do understand this developer's plight. 10K people per square mile is alot of competition where good work is.

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Hmm, you ever been to India?

Yes I have. There are plenty of middle class people and most technically educated developers are among them. There are also a lot of tech companies hiring.

I apologize for implying you didn't understand the culture by asking if you have been there, I didn't mean that in any way.

In any case, alot of my family are middle class and can't find decent jobs. The competition is very high and programmers are a dime a dozen. Technically educated doesn't mean they enjoy it. Most consider it a job to get by. Some find it to be a passion. The ones who see it as a paycheck are far more likely to rip a site off and the culture is such that it doesn't seem wrong. "Someone else's problem."

I guess now it's his problem... ripping someone off and then complaining about being called on it is pretty silly in my opinion, regardless of what your motivations are for working, particularly in a competitive environment such as the one you describe.

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