[jebarker]

This is true, but there's still choice in how we expand and the default seems to be to do it as wastefully as possible.

[lazide]

As wastefully as we can get away with no?

Not the same thing.

[jebarker]

Yes, your wording is better, I don't believe people are actively trying to be as wasteful as possible.

[pbjtime]

It's what the economy rewards. Simple as that

[jebarker]

I don't totally agree. It's what a short-term view of the economy rewards for sure. But even if that was the only view of the economy I've seen plenty of low-performance software written purely out of cargo culting and/or inability or lack of will to do anything better.