Yes. Exactly. Naive in precisely the way that good technical people tend to be. Which is why it's just such a lucrative business model to screw them five way

Yes. Exactly. Naive in precisely the way that good technical people tend to be. Which is why it's just such a lucrative business model to screw them five ways from Sunday. More specifically, I think it's probably more in the nature of technical people to imagine that if any screwing is going to happen, that the screwing will be to the benefit of the company, and thus to their own benefit as well. Whereas I think the business mentality can much more easily gloss over details like division of labor and cut straight to "make more money for me".