For the same reason everyone else reads HN during working hours, you're an unfulfilled worker bee and you don't enjoy your job enough to be fully engaged in what you do.
I think deep down many of them know they provide zero value to a company and project their own fears of being a fraud. If an employee is not building a product/service or selling a product/service, he or she is part of the vast and bloated department of the "Bullsh*t Economy", its the largest department of every company.
Interesting, you go around the internet bestowing an imaginary permission for people to have ideas when they align with yours (ending WFH is bogus) and imposing some kind of imaginary restrictions on thought that doesn't align with yours (Girard offers insight).
Are you aware of the bizarre egocentrism this kind of psychology implies?