I actually do care. I am also emotionally involved. Bad code makes me feel bad, I am ecstatic about good code.

I am deeply saddened when I see people making the same mistakes over and over again.

This attitude negatively impacted my career on more than one occasion.

I am now doing a relatively low-pay work for the public services. My job is cleaning the Augean stables of decades-old Java code, but I feel better than shitting crappy code for the unicorn that none needs in the industry that should not exist.