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The economic consequences for doing things wrong are less than the profit made.

Until that changes, nothing else will.



I’m not even sure it’s more profitable to do things wrong it’s just easier and more advantageous for individual managers


Why is it advantageous though? Surely the behaviors of managers are incentivised by something.


Because the benefits are reaped well before the full cost becomes evident. By the time everything catches fire, the person responsible has retired into their Mediterranean villas and will never come back to fix what they caused.


CYA incentives:

If I don't install one of these system (and global IT) killing EDR systems, and I have a breach _I_ am responsible.

If my company requires it, and I install it and the entire network falls over, responsibility is passed to the EDR vendor. Everytime the EDR platform in my org kills an app, much of the reaction internally is "Oh well, at least we are protected. Let's open a support ticket."

"Security" software has been troublesome since the first AV platform was released. But the personal risk for management to not deploy it is high.


Yeah this allows outsourcing both risk and responsibility. The institutional risk that you take in exchange is acceptable because it lowers personal risk


Generally individual managers who make these decisions are acting as short sighted as companies they belong to. Along with that, Company interests and individual manager interests don't always align.

I've been plenty of places where individual manager comes up with some grand plan, implements it, gets praise and leverages into new job. Meanwhile, that plan never makes it past MVP and is massive tech debt that will weigh down the company but they don't care.


They are higher, actually, especially in this case and otherwise by definition. The problem is that most of the cost ends up externalized.


Indeed. Company should go close to bankrupty in incident like this. But CrowdStrike pays fractions.


Penalty 1: stock buybacks forbidden

Penalty 2: separate the company into two, separating financialization procedures from manufacturing ones.

Penalty 3: greenlight a union by default.


> Penalty 3: greenlight a union by default.

This should be a fundamental feature in any functioning society that expects (or wishes) to remain functional.


Penalty 2 is the same as closing the company down


No, why? If there's a company that provides actual value, why should splitting off the financialization part kill the part that provides real value? It's maybe the same as closing down the financialization part of the company, but if so, what loss to society?


The financialization (profit-making) is the only reason anyone with any power bothers to keep any of it running.


One could say that most of the companies outside U.S are non-financial




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