I feel the real story here is that stunning incompetence and corruption in the tech company C-suite is too often compensated for by the willingness of tech workers to burn themselves out to prove...what exactly?
Sometimes the industry reminds me of George Orwell's quote about the UK: "a dysfunctional family with all the wrong people in charge".
@danjac I'm old enough to remember Ed Yourdon describing this kind of thing as "death march" projects, back in the early 2000s. I've seen plenty of these, worked on a couple and walked away from a few.
But too many areas of IT still seem a bit like Soviet era gymnastics, where eager, talented youngsters are groomed into accepting massive burdens and sacrifices, then abandoned once they can no longer deliver the often pointless performances their masters demand.
@hengymrohebwlad this article also describes what I like to call "golf driven development", when deals with substandard vendors are made on the fairway without regard to actual requirements or consultation with the domain experts.
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