1/ Widespread attitude: "Good engineers should be seen, not heard." Quite a few clueless engineers seem to actually buy that line.
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2/ Engineers get suckered into shutting up by being flattered into "doing is better than talking" John-Henry prowess vanity.
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3/ Those who kindly agree to speak "for" engineers usually do so by claiming all the credit and assigning all the blame to engineers.
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5/ The ineffective response is to be kinda apologetic, like Samuel Florman.
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6/ Dumb response is to go noble-martyr first and then flip to righteous anger. Juvenile Ayn Rand response that many biz types fall prey to.
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