[gonational]

It's honestly just an example of ego and coping. These people are trading temporary gains in pseudo-productivity for training their replacements and atrophying their skills.

The truth of the matter is that the people who will choose to partake already weren't thinking; otherwise they wouldn't have chosen. This is the same with every bubble or major revolutionary thing that ends up having negative effects in the long run. GLP-1 is another great example of one that is still on the upward arc.

Sheep will always be sheep, and, in my opinion, this is the reason for the changes in hiring and the large scale encouragement of folks that obviously are not smart enough for this career to suddenly join in over the past 10 years.