Steve Randy Waldman on Nostr: "This is the American story of the past 4 decades: accumulate tech debt, merge to ...

"This is the American story of the past 4 decades: accumulate tech debt, merge to monopoly, exponentially compound your tech debt by combining barely functional IT systems. Every corporate behemoth is locked in a race between the eventual discovery of its irreparable structural defects and its ability to become so enmeshed in our lives that we have to assume the costs of fixing those defects. It's a contest between 'too rotten to stand' and 'too big to care'" Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/#antonin-scalia-stole-your-car