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The problem is maintenance, it's a cost center, it doesn't directly generate revenue, so it's been eliminated. NOBODY is willing to spend money for maintenance on ANYTHING, look at our infrastructure. If it wasn't for the FAA making it illegal to not maintain planes, we'd be seeing the same thing with airlines and their planes. We are seeing this with the Air Force right now, where they are now trying to reverse engineer parts for planes and then 3d print those parts, because no one was willing to spend the money to maintain documentation, maintain vendors, and parts inventory, etc. Software is especially vulnerable to this phenomenon, because it's not physical so it's considered to be completely fungible, but in fact it's even harder to maintain than physical systems. The same way Wall Street rewarded companies that closed factories, and outsourced physical locations, and staff, they've also rewarded companies that have eliminated maintenance. That's just the way it is. |
It does (effectively), the problem is that it is on a long enough time span that the dividends don't appear until long after the decision makers are all long gone. Executives need to be compensated with annuities depending on the future performance of the company to disincentivise slash & burn profit farming.