This is an odd take. By this logic, you should never hire someone that is financially independent and can walk away from a job.

You just stated the reason why engineers have a hard time getting hired as baristas when they're laid off.

The hiring restaurant knows you can and will walk as soon as you land another engineering gig.

Well, partially. Trust fund kids are notoriously poor employees, yes. Unless what they’re doing is somehow motivated by status or passion. Which now we’re back to those human motivations like sexual rejection and disappointing people you don’t want to disappoint.

But completely unmotivated financially independent people are probably the worst people to have on a team, yes.