| If the contractor finds asbestos, he's allowed to quote me more to do the work I hired him for. If my mechanic says my car has old parts not in inventory, they may cost more and take longer to replace or maybe they charge more to do the work. When the laws change, your lawyer gets billed to review and update your contracts. As new legal precedents are formed, new legalese is created and updated and contracts are renegotiated. Few things in the world are future proof for every conceivable externality. No one considers these professionals idiots simply because their domain has 'technical debt' too. It us ok to have technical debt, to mention it, to bill to fix it, and to talk about it. And you only look like a fool if you try to cover it up and pretend it isn't there because 'its not the customers's problem' |
Then a new house is also shown, but we are only shown mainly interiors and views, never an iota about how the foundation or technology of the house works. That bit you the last time. And the owners want to get rid of the old house because it left a bad taste in their mouth by having these "surprises". Yet they waltz right into the next one with no concern whatsoever. (The shows also never talk about costs of living.... it's just the buying price of the house.)
These things all have direct analogies in the software world. It very often feels like a lot of people in the business are interior decorators and if I try to converse them as a structural expert - it just doesn't work.