The point is made in the article that a lot of this money was not taken in order to stay alive at all. The concrete example is Slack taking $250 million that they haven't even earmarked for anything in particular, just "operational flexibility".
It's a nice play on emotions to bring up "wife and children", but that's not reality here.
It's hard for people to understand it, and this is not the first time I've been accused of lying about this very thing... But when I say never, I mean it.
My principle on this matter is more important than any emotion I may have.
Some people feel like it's ok to be selfish as long as they don't directly see the results of their selfishness. Yet imagine if every time you went to pick up your check, you were forced to watch a woman get stoned to death because someone raped her, and the ones doing the stoning were the ones handing you the check.
Any person that is okay with this scenario is a scourge on this planet.
Any person who isn't okay with this scenario, but is ok with taking blood money from foreign countries where they do not have to see the violence actually taking place, well honestly I just pity them for living their life in such a state of confusion.
Yeah. Mark Twain's story (warprayer.org) comes to mind.
People love to argue for the abuser. Any argument you can make for "having" to, say, become an SS officer to feed your family, is outweighed by the much more justifiable need to kill that SS officer to protect many more lives.
The people who are on the receiving end of stuff like this usually don't get to post on HN, and to signal obedience towards their murderers, while giving no real thought to those they murder, well... as Ilse Aichinger said, to forget the dead is to murder them again.
It's a nice play on emotions to bring up "wife and children", but that's not reality here.