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Civilisation, like infrastructure, requires a lot of maintenance.

Maintenance is not sexy, popular or fun. It's easy to forget, downplay or undefund it.

When you underfund maintenance effects are not immediately apparent. By the time the problem is obvious it's often late.
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verbiricha · 67w
๐Ÿ’ฏ this applies to software too
Cykros · 67w
Centralization exacerbates these effects, because it essentially puts all our eggs in one basket -- a basket that is increasingly complex, and thus less and less sexy to pay attention to when pandering for votes. Especially when someone else can be blamed for the lack of attention paid. Similar dyn...
counterweight · 67w
A cada dia que pasa, mas se parece todo al tercio final de Atlas Shrugged. La crisis de Valencia me recuerda a ese momento tan triste en el tercio final del libro cuando todos los trabajadores, tanto de la red ferroviaria como de otros servicios, llegan a ese punto en que se la sopla todo. Cuando d...