Comment by ironchef

I'll play devil's advocate as your brush strokes are hyperbolically broad. Couldn't one just as simply say "Programmers are toxic to business. They're classically myopic optimizing for 'fun' technical stacks without understanding the business they're working in." That's obviously untrue as well. I've been lucky enough to work with some very good folks who are MBAs. I would suggest the issue you're seeing is similar to what we try to avoid in the tech culture. We want to hire the best engineers out there...not the average code monkeys. Similarly, if you hire great MBAs they should not be toxic to businesses.