I guess we've had wildly different career paths. The VAST majority of developers I've worked with couldn't give 2 shits about the business (as they probably sh

I guess we've had wildly different career paths. The VAST majority of developers I've worked with couldn't give 2 shits about the business (as they probably shouldn't - the biz doesn't give 2 shits about them). Most of them don't really care about self preservation, because if you're an IC - it's so much easier to get a job compared to a manager or a VP or an exec. But most of them just want to build new things and use the hottest framework or drive some overly complex design just for the sake of it. At the same time, there's bugs that actually effect customers that no one is working on, because no one has time for that because they're too busy re-writing something in some new language or framework or whatever...