Almost everything anyone does in business, as far as I can tell, is dramatically optimized for speed at the expense of almost everything else. This is a natura

Almost everything anyone does in business, as far as I can tell, is dramatically optimized for speed at the expense of almost everything else. This is a natural result of a very competitive market place and, as far as I can tell, its rational if you take that circumstance to be an immutable state of affairs. Its no good stopping to dot the i's and cross the t's if, in doing so, you get completely edged out of the market by a competitor who isn't doing so. And you haven't even made the world a better, safer, nicer place by doing so. You've just left the door open for someone less scrupulous to beat you with a shittier product. The solutions aren't palatable in the current philosophical mode: much more aggressive penalties (corporate death penalties, for instance, in which shareholders literally lose all their money) or much tighter and well enforced regulations. Move fast and break stuff truly is the philosophy of the day. If you don't want to break stuff, you have to make moving fast less competitive. As far as I can tell, that's the only way.