>"We can't be infinitely rich, therefore we should be as poor as possible." Very obviously not OPs point. What they're saying is that if you're living in a sys

>"We can't be infinitely rich, therefore we should be as poor as possible." Very obviously not OPs point. What they're saying is that if you're living in a system that basically runs on a sort of 'lipstick on a pig' mentality being confronted with your problems directly and being forced to solve them is preferable to dragging it out, and there's a lot of truth to that. You may be familiar with the old startup and systems design mantra 'fail fast', which is the same thing. If you want a long term sustainable system it is good to act in such a way as to bring systemic faults to the surface.