Sure, this post might objectively get you to a higher paying software job, but good God I hope I never start seeing the world like this guy or ever have to work

Sure, this post might objectively get you to a higher paying software job, but good God I hope I never start seeing the world like this guy or ever have to work with people who do. Am I really reading the same article as everyone else? The one I'm reading is filled with these sociopathic gems: > Add revenue. Reduce costs. Those are your only goals. > You’re in the business of unemploying people. If you think that is unfair, go back to school and study something that doesn’t matter. > A good engineer has a track record of — repeat after me — increasing revenue or decreasing costs. > Much of Fog Creek uses the Microsoft Stack. I can’t even spell ASP.NET and they’d still hire me. > You should be a good person to everyone you meet — it is the moral thing to do, and as a sidenote will really help your networking > Strive to help people. It is the right thing to do, and people are keenly aware of who have in the past given them or theirs favors. > This is how the game is played. If you feel poorly about it, you’re like a batter who feels poorly about stealing bases in baseball: you’re not morally superior, you’re just playing poorly > Social grooming is a really important skill. There are some bits of the article I agree with, but I can't help but wonder what happened to this person to make them see the world in such a brutally transactional way, where being kind and genuine are just hat tips towards your humanity while ultimately serving to further your career. I can see this guide as maybe useful for someone who wants to use software engineering as a means of clawing their way out of poverty, but on HN, where I'd imagine most people have a genuine interest in tech outside of or in addition to its potential to make them money, I'm terribly disappointed to see the majority of people here agreeing with him.