People can be smart and selfish at the same time. I've worked with some extremely smart people who realized that what made work satisfying to them was getting p

People can be smart and selfish at the same time. I've worked with some extremely smart people who realized that what made work satisfying to them was getting paid to be clever all day. Being smart, they found ways to do that, at the expense of their employers and coworkers. I wasted an hour of my afternoon writing a long and angry screed about my professional experience with functional programming (in Scala) but at the end of the day, sadly, it can be summed up as that, smart people scamming companies for the opportunity to be clever all day. I see mainstream programming benefiting more and more from the influence of functional ideas, so I still think that FP might become the default for professional programmers at some point in the future, at least for some kinds of work, and I think the work I've invested in it has made me a better programmer, but I'm fed up with the kinds of people I've found myself working with along the way.