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by yterdy 1191 days ago
Overengineering is a choice. You can take the slower way, with fewer points of failure, and while you can't (or might not even want to) always stop people from trying to a build a faster solution, you CAN make them pay for the real cost of any adverse incidents which occur under their aegis. If the ship is already burning, you treat the passengers (within reason) and you fine the carrier; you don't bail the latter out, on the promise that they'll make the former whole.

The very paradigm of allowing these entities to lobby their way to private profits and socialized losses is indeed corruption.