Comment by jackblemming
7 months ago
It happens when an ex-engineer is in a leadership position. The results are good, but it’s typically a small part of having a successful company.
However, you should want to build quality software because building quality things is fulfilling. Unfortunately certain systems have made the worship of money the end all be all of human experience.
The cult of morbid wealth slithered into the minds of people who have little or no money yet see themselves as temporarily-embarrassed, future billionaires because they work at one of the corporations as a peon or see billionaires on TV.