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Comment on Ask HN: Why are developers so obsessed with starting their own business?

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I think it's because at the very basic level we hate working for someone else on their ideas.

You're angling in the right direction. We don't so much hate working for someone else on their ideas[0] so much as we hate working to make somebody else's dream come true and make them rich all the while being disrespected and treated like the hired help, like code monkeys.

[0]: Unless you have many marketable ideas of your own. Not all programmers do, though.

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