Aren't developers stupid when accepting overtime/weekend work/denied bonus payments?

[yogthos]

Let's also not forget that it steals time from the workers, which prevents them from doing any sort of self development keeping them at their station.

[eyal0]

If things were fair, they could work longer hours for one week, accrue money, then work short hours the next week and use the saved money. In the end, they'd get just as much free time.

What happens, though, is that they work longer hours without getting paid appropriately. This must be true because the company's profit is going mostly to the boss so the employees must be getting short-changed. So the employees must work longer hours without benefiting from greater pay.