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“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
by jdkee 6y ago
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
- Gibbon1 6y agoWhen I did industrial stuff I dealt a lot with engineers and techs that were happy doing maintenance. That's probably not something Vonnegut as a writer had any experience with.
- kwhitefoot 6y agoEngineers and technicians are a minority group. Your positive experience of that group doesn't necessarily invalidate Vonnegut's observation about people in general.
- jhfdbkofdcho 6y agoyou don't know much about Kurt Vonnegut's background.
- eropple 6y agoIndividuals can be. Systems with bad rewards for doing so rarely are. For a tech example, see how reliably Google rewards teams for making new stuff and not for keeping it running.