The reality is that many people don’t want to talk to anyone else, and ultimately want to be paid to do little or no work at all.

So many folks are completely disconnected from the performance of their group (whatever structure that group takes), that stuff like this starts to sound appealing.

Nobody who wants to get things done (that actually benefit the group) would advocate for not collaborating with other members of the group, but folks who want to maximize extraction with minimal effort would.