Right, this was more along my line of thinking "good work for good money." I'm still delivering great ideas and code for my new/acquisition employer, but their

Right, this was more along my line of thinking "good work for good money." I'm still delivering great ideas and code for my new/acquisition employer, but their money isn't good so I'm not sticking around. My main contention with "believe in the product" is that it's a canned phrase that I've heard time and time again, to encourage employees to "pull through for our mission" through "sacrifice from your family that is appreciated." The only people who ever benefit from that are the C-suite; customers get broken software coded by broken developers and support has to break themselves fixing the mess. It's a meme, by the purest definition, and it seems to work: people (myself included) get riled up in cameraderi and put themselves and their family second. If they truly appreciated our sacrifices, we'd have money in our bank accounts, not "belief in the product."