[mcphage]

> imagine how much more abundance we would have if we didn't need to build all these security measures to deter bad actors

This article has plenty of information about the fact that companies aren't building in security measures because they don't want to pay.

Or to put it another way: think about how much better shopping experiences we'd all have if stores weren't constantly understaffed. But they are, and so shopping sucks and shoplifters proliferate.