Techies read a lot of genre fiction with anti-heroes on the run, and that kind of thing. Maybe even some political sympathy, McAfee as an example of "going Galt".
I don't think that phrase means what you think it means. Fleeing countries for possibly being responsible for other peoples' deaths isn't quite the same thing as stopping work to avoid being leeched dry. Regardless of whether you think the latter action is silly, they're hardly similar.
