There was also a Harvard paper that was the main justification for austerity in the UK given its conclusion that past a certain GDP/debt ratio al sorts of bad things happen.

Turned out to be an excel error skipping 1/4 of their data and when re-run with the whole set the effect vanished. Horrible abuses of excel and csv files are by no means limited to any one country.

Maybe, I started a new job 9 months ago going down on the evil scale, but I was meaning in general not specific to now or anywhere in particular. It might not be a great time to get a new job as a dev, but you still almost certainly have more freedom to do so than a janitor.

More, but not much more. Presumably the developers have more capability to get another job elsewhere and are less constrained by economic neccessity. Even then though their amount of “guilt” is tiny compared to those in decision making roles.