what about a guy already straddled with debt, no family, and nothing left?

I think you’re missing the larger point. Please let me try to help give you my perspective.

I have cancer. I’ve been fucked by medical insurance several times, but less than most. My cancer is very treatable and treatment is mostly going well. I still feel like shit every day. There’s some days I’m in so much pain I can hardly move. Some days I have migraines where I stay in bed all day. Some days I’m just nauseous all day.

The point is when you don’t have anything left to lose, you’re often too sick to fight back. @[email protected] is right in their assessment, the capitalist hellscape we live in is purpose built to keep people hanging by a thread so they simply don’t have time or energy to fight back even when they’re at their most beaten down… because usually by that point the energy has been all but sapped from their body.

I can tell you, in my state of poverty, I couldn’t just magic up the money for the things he did, I would have to be saving for months and months, maybe even up to a year or more. I’m already exhausted every day, I don’t exactly feel like busting my ass really hard for a year to get back at anyone. This guy certainly made way more money than I do, so this was much more easily done on a whim for him.

I’d personally say most people are probably like me, exhausted and in poverty to the point that they’d rather give up than fight. Once again, that’s built into the system of misery we live in, to break people down long before they finally wake up and want to fight back, so they’re empty, broke, and exhausted when they finally do. Most people go their whole lives not questioning our system because they’re too busy being burnt out by our system to have the luxury of time to question it.