Post #3497466
2026-06-30 19:41 UTC
"But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet."
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@kevlin@mastodon.social 2026-06-30 19:44
The difference between actual poverty and software architecture is that, usually, the costs of software architecture are self-inflicted by a business failing to prioritise appropriately. Rather than reduce failure demand in order to increase value demand, they would rather add more people to address the failure demand. They have the money and the time; they're just poor at budgeting.