Why not say that? Just like a developer she stands around with her hand out and when people lavish her palm with freebies she, presumably, is thankful for fools.
This Strib link.
How is hand out, awaiting as if largesse is due and earned and inevitable, different in any fashion from DEVELOPERS?
Tell me. I see conscious parallelism. Reliance upon apparent, total fools. And, without the fools it does not work.
This earlier Crabgrass post.