I think that there is going to be a fair amount of cognitive dissonance at play here for the people who have given up many many hours for free. That is to say,

I think that there is going to be a fair amount of cognitive dissonance at play here for the people who have given up many many hours for free. That is to say, if you decide to share these ideas with your boss, be careful. It will cause him/her to introspect, and then likely decide that all their time invested playing the "sucker" game was not a waste, and that you are, in fact, just lazy.