1. Why? Money. Works almost always. 2. Scary how little you can be killed for. 3. Scary how big of a risk to their own life people are willing to take for money. 4. Is it really money? Criminals are usually spendthrifts. All that stuff really doesn’t improve life much. Seems like status signals must be the real insatiable desire. 5. Rethinking, this seems like the work of a drug addict. The person has reasonable executive capacity (dopamine drive), but lacks empathy for others or their own future.
This, so often. The amount of pain, heartbreak, and trauma caused by relatively-meaningless amounts of money, which a family would easily part with if it kept their loved one alive.
The article doesn't say that the stolen money was directly used to pay off family debts. It instead insinuates that the man was well-paid in the first place.
