This. A million times this. I think at this point the tech community should be vocal about this issue. Tech has improved ten-fold this last decade, and IT cons

This. A million times this. I think at this point the tech community should be vocal about this issue. Tech has improved ten-fold this last decade, and IT consulting services simply don't care because they profit hugely from it. What makes this issue even harder to solve is the fact that IT is so simple to hide because society does not understand it enough. Similar to the Tech Pledge, we should stand and be very vocal about the fact that you CAN build strong, secure and relatively cheap systems. If we don't do this, who else will ? We're stuck between a part of the industry which benefit from this (and especially the big bosses, they don't care about the developers either) and a society which doesn't see the value of homegrown (as in company/government-grown) tech talent and the tenfolds decreases in IT spending it could entail. Please, Sam Altman ? Someone ? Please ?