This applies to 99% of businesses started by tech professionals too. There is nothing nobler or kinder about tech businesses. All those "mission statements" are just pure fluff for PR purposes.
true, but would it be wrong to assume that the following ratio:
(the number of people who are passionate about xyz and curiosity and pure joy are major driving forces) / (total number of people working in xyz)
is probably much higher for cs than for plumbing?
Don't know about the passion, but they really are making the world a better place, one clogged drain at a time.
We work in a different medium, but at a high level I think the process can look very similar, and there's satisfaction in a job well done
I met too many business people who just wanted to run a startup no matter if it was software or physical products.
If anything it's kind of a personal issue.
Surely most scientific discovery comes along with passion and curiosity, so there's some overlap there, but most work doesn't get done out of either of those things. Most of the things that move the ball forward are a grind.