People who understand financial debt don't think of it as evil. It's a tool they use. Technical debt is the same way, and I often talk about it that way at wo

People who understand financial debt don't think of it as evil. It's a tool they use. Technical debt is the same way, and I often talk about it that way at work. But it's a phrase that means something that "business investment" doesn't. When I tell my boss that we're incurring technical debt (and what exactly that debt is), he is already in the "business investment" mindset on the matter. I'm the one trying to reign that in and focus on making the future easier by avoiding some of that debt now. But I fully understand both sides of the matter.