As long as they can produce new bugs, some programmers feel they're very important, because they are the only ones who can solve them.

Writing bugs is a part of the power game that some computer programmers love to play, even unconsciously.

There's one other profession where this happens and where it has reached the level of crime. Most politicians have studied law. When they can make many laws and make them very difficult to understand with lots of contradictions and flaws at all levels, then they're increasing their power over the population.