Comment by DonHopkins

Oh no, it's justice. Sweet sweet justice. It's not like he worked hard for all the money he lost through stupidity and incompetence, or that it generated any value to the economy or society. Any competent IT professional knows very well about the importance of performing backups, and testing their backups. He may "subconsciously blame" his partner for losing the hard drive, but it was 100% his own fault he never bothered to back it up. He's doing just fine if he can afford all those legal fees, so he doesn't need to be "helped up", and playing the world's smallest violin in sympathy of his fate is hardly "kicking him".