[nobody_at_all]

> Obviously, if I work as a developer making a stock trading app, I shouldn't be making a competing stock trading app after hours.

How is that obvious?

If a single person, regardless of where they work, can produce a stock trading app that would actually compete against what a company is producing, why shouldn't they do it?

People are starting to learn how much power they really have (see the current low wage revolt), perhaps programmers will realize it someday and stop allowing companies to steamroll them.