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> Peer mentoring is part of your job in any field.

All morality in a corporate setting is fake by design. Everybody simply maximizes their own bottom line, and if you don't too, you are an idiot. Training your own competition is simply not a way to maximize your revenue.

> you don't feel the slightest obligation ...

No morality whatsoever emanates from a company's bottom line. It can certainly not compete with my own bottom line. How can you expect people to agree to train their own competition? Publishing general open-source code is ok, but telling other people how the code works that you write and maintain for a living ... why would anybody do that?

> Companies don't want to lock their knowledge into a few good people.

It is not their knowledge. It is these "few good people"'s knowledge.

> I'd challenge you to take on the task of teaching others ...

Never, ever. Only idiots agree to train their own competition.

> Companies want their top performers in the office so they can serve as trainers/mentors/teachers to the new college kids and the incompetent older people they hire.

It is not hard to avoid training your own competition. Three people have left in despair over the last two years trying to get me to train them. I just happen to be not particularly talkative when it is about the details of my work.

The Bible comes across as better English, but that is a bit unfair, because the King James translation must initially have sounded awful too.