Yes, obviously it’s relevant you have a fundamental misunderstanding about what software engineers do. We don’t “build systems” we diffuse risk for the managers

Yes, obviously it’s relevant you have a fundamental misunderstanding about what software engineers do. We don’t “build systems” we diffuse risk for the managers. If someone is “helping build something” they can spend their own money doing that. This is business, the less work you do the more money you make.