Many people in academia do all this and more for much less pay and job security. Some of them invent the math you get paid 3 times as much (at least) to apply.

Many people in academia do all this and more for much less pay and job security. Some of them invent the math you get paid 3 times as much (at least) to apply. I guess they fall into the dumb-ass category of your binary classification of everyone as either software engineers or dumb-asses.