Well, but the CS disease may be suffered by individuals and - occasionally, you're right - groups or even the IT department as a whole. The MBA disease is curr

Well, but the CS disease may be suffered by individuals and - occasionally, you're right - groups or even the IT department as a whole. The MBA disease is currently suffered by top management of huge multinational conglomerates, because its vector is in fact the people within companies who allocate all the money. It's like the difference between the flu and AIDS - if the disease targets the immune system you're dead. Regarding discovering it, though, speak for yourself about the just-nowness. When the corporate raider became front magazine cover hero in the 80's, that's when it became endemic. Since then, America has been eating its seed corn. I was in high school and college at the time, so I didn't know what was going on, but looking back, it should have been obvious. And like I say, I figured it out in the early 90's. I've been self-employed since that job and never regretted it.