[Twisell]

Same logic apply to climate change issues.

There is little immediate reward so let this dumpster fire explode on our kids...

It doesn't necessarily mean that it's a good logic. We desperately need more long term thinking.

[analognoise]

Counterpoint: a system that runs for 20, 30, 40 years without any serious downtime is the definition of long term thinking.

[rtempaccount1]

except of course where the system is ossified and you can no longer make changes for fear of affecting that lack of downtime.

In the organizations I've seen with mainframes, what happened was a panoply of supporting systems sprung up where new requirements existed as everyone was afraid of making significant changes to the mainframe environment.