The thing that’s confusing people isn’t that he snapped. It’s that he has a master’s degree in computer science.
That’s the part they can’t process. Someone that credentialed, that capable – why wasn’t he pulling in serious money at some big corporation? The assumption underneath all of it is that intelligence has one correct destination, and that destination is a high salary and a title at a company large enough to matter.
That’s the benchmark. That’s what we’re using to measure whether a person is sane, stable, and worth taking seriously. Not their values. Not their relationships. Not what they actually think or feel or observe about the world. Their salary.
Here is what nobody wants to say out loud: plenty of people with exactly those credentials are miserable inside exactly those companies. Trapped not by choice but by health insurance, by student debt, by the slow erosion of believing anything else is possible. They’re performing normalcy on a loop. We call them well-adjusted.
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