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I don't think this is a particularly good analogy either. you don't have some moral obligation to fix up the old code for the other team. you do it because that

I don't think this is a particularly good analogy either. you don't have some moral obligation to fix up the old code for the other team. you do it because that's what you're getting paid for. if you really don't feel like fixing it, there's nothing wrong with quitting the job.

danShumway 6y ago
Point taken, but I'm not sure what quitting a democracy looks like. I guess legislators in Oklahoma are free not to run for government positions? And citizens are free to either stop voting, or possibly move to a different state? But my instinct is that if someone says to me, "I don't want to deal with fixing inherited broken systems", at the very least my response to that is going to be something along the lines of, "that's fine, but then don't get in the way of other people who are fixing them."