[agumonkey]

> You see, all of the above was a problem, because it didn't keep me employed. I was not the "hero" for saving the day. Entire teams of people weren't involved. There was no visibility at the senior management level. Nobody got scared, or had to throw money at it, or hire consultants to review it.

there are a few other instances of that:

- an old article about Michelin (french tire manufacturer) quoting some scientist of theirs "We can make a million hour tire.. but what would we sell"

- recently people said their rust code cause too much downtime for coders because it was too stable too early

flip side of the same issue:

- very often people game their work to ensure benefits: stash duties for later so you can appear busy, or overwhelmed (and claim promotion because you have so much to do)

The global system doesn't reward to true optimization, it allocates people on useless tasks, at best for lower risk, but smart people doing things solid and fast could be using their talents on other problems.