Or they did pay attention, recognized the system doesn’t work for them and say…why not burn it the fuck down. At some point people don’t have anything to lose.

“I don’t want to get bumped into the next tax bracket,

There are other reasons why someone will not want a raise. There are cases where getting a small raise will bump you out of benefits completely. Extra $20 a month may cost you $200 in benefits. In the USA anyways. I agree with your statement.

I remember when the ISP said that we would never need 1TB, it’s like 1 million floppies. They knew we would be here needing that data when game downloads are now 150GB+