[EvanAnderson]

More and more I am becoming convinced "killing people" is an intended "feature" rather than a bug. I'm sure it's not an explicit goal of any but a tiny fraction of participants in the "system", but, cynically, I am becoming convinced it is somebody's goal.

[jfoutz]

I don't think it's on purpose. It's decomposing a monolith down to microservices, without any verification. Since each player is only responsible for their little corner of the world, no one actually has any sort of responsibility to ensure the overall system still works.

[faitswulff]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

[dolson]

Emergent behaviour.

[i_feel_great]

I feel it is due to its complexity. The complexity is caused by rent seeking behaviour. I see shades of it here in Clay Shirky's essay: http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex...

[xkcd-sucks]

Well yeah, if something bad happens one can complain about it or figure out how to profit from it