I've thought a lot about this. It's certainly easy to dunk on spreadsheets being error-prone (and even easier to dunk on VBA!). It's a decades-long running joke

I've thought a lot about this. It's certainly easy to dunk on spreadsheets being error-prone (and even easier to dunk on VBA!). It's a decades-long running joke: https://dilbert.com/strip/2007-08-08 https://dilbert.com/strip/2007-08-08 But at a higher level, what strikes me is that spreadsheets don't get checked if they tell you what you want to hear. These stories are generally about afflicting the afflicted (Reinhart and Rogoff) and banks and traders taking on too much global risk in pursuit of local reward (the London Whale). This is a problem with the intersection of software and society in general, and I don't have an answer.