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by lamontcg 95 days ago
The duct tape people are generally drowning under all the work they're doing, and they'd be fine to keep doing other productive stuff.

There's always going to be duct tape stuff around, and you don't want the people who can actually fix widgets to wind up running around with their hair on fire applying duct tape to keep it running without any time to fix widgets.

And when there's too much duct tape jobs going around the widget fixers may take a look at it all and decide they don't get want to get stuck with applying duct tape once all the duct tape appliers are fired, so they just skip to some other job.

You're always going to have some duct tape.