I'm not blindly blaming the bottom developer. I've played my role in past waves as well as many other developers. I'm not a CEO, so I don't know how to communicate this same message to a CEO. But as a developer, I know I've been an ignorant participant in the past. Willfully or not. And I can change my role in the next coming wave.

We developers are not blameless. If we accept that we are playing a role; then we can be proactive in preventing this and influencing the direction things go. CEOs need developers to achieve what they want.

I'm not saying it's easy. I won't even hold it against folks that decide to go in a separate direction than mine. But I at least hope we can be open about the impact we each have; and that we are not powerless here.

Yes CEOs are to blame, but blaming them isn't gonna do anything. They won't change. Who has the motivation and capacity to change things? The working people. Who isn't currently doing it? The working people. So it seems appropriate for me to raise this fact as a problem, the fact that the working people silently go along with all the evil plans ceos put in place