[yumraj]

> They did it because they enjoyed being employed.

Not just that, when the whole product is broken down into features, managed by Feature Managers (aka product manager), that is wrapped up in business speak, and there are whole hierarchies of [Engineering, Product, Project] managers, there are very few people, if any, who understand the whole thing and various side effects and so on.

So in end, in many cases people don’t even realize the nefarious nature of what they’re working on.

On top of that one is surrounded in the echo chamber of fellow employees all looking at the rising stock price and resulting bank balance.