Then you simply haven't lived it -- a privilege you should be ever grateful for. Many people try to be good at heart, but there are certain dens of scum that a

Then you simply haven't lived it -- a privilege you should be ever grateful for. Many people try to be good at heart, but there are certain dens of scum that all but the naive, foolish, and equally villainous steer clear of (I was the first two). I joined a startup ran by the equivalent of a used car salesman turned finance exec turned founder. He employed some of his family, and many of his friends and prior colleagues. I was tasked with building the entire technical side of things from the ground up with a "short leash" in terms of resources, time, and such (albeit I came to find out they were never real constraints, just artificial pressure by a Jobs wannabe). And so I did, because I could not get a job elsewhere, and this was a great career opportunity. I did this in good faith. Even when I had to work 100 hour weeks to put out fires caused by an endless amount of cut corners to reach some artificial deadline -- I still put in a good faith effort to do the right thing. Even when the executives plugged their ears and would not listen to a word that did not coincide with their reality (we need real engineers, and your salesmen need to stop lying to their customers about products we don't have, because I cannot develop 6 projects in parallel. No, you cannot hire a bunch of bodies from a 3rd world country at low wages to staff augment a project behind some delusional deadline). And so I went from a bright, fit, and jovial young man into a balding, vitriolic, and frankly psychotic goblin. I'm still recovering from the PTSD -- and your post did "trigger" me into an emotional flashback. For that I apologize. You may have taken my exasperated and irritated tone at face value, as someone without much emotional maturity or inward reflection (i.e. teenagers with self-esteem issues and grown children who spend all of their free time idly consuming entertainment). But this is where I vehemently disagree with your characterization, and will flip it back onto you: perhaps you simply haven't lived enough to understand both view points?