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Not if you are going to rent your tent as a house afterwards.

• logicallee 4y ago
  Got it: when you accept money for letting someone sleep in your tent you are $1 million in debt since you are now obligated to purchase that plot of land (which may not even be for sale at any price), find a licensed architect, design a house, get building permits, find contractors and build it. Plus you are infinite amount in debt since it takes infinite money to build a time machine so that your initial customer can sleep in appropriate lodgings retroactively. Often code with technical debt has paying customers, and going back in time to get them what you imagine they should eventually get is part of the financial equation, right? Thus technical debt always includes building a time machine so that your initial customers can use the product they should have gotten from the backend they should have gotten it from, back when they should have gotten it. In other news, the world's richest person is actually the world's poorest: Elon Musk built a tent in people's minds and now he has to deliver on it. His technical debt is a hotel on Mars. Since technical debt is real, that makes him the world's poorest person by a huge margin. Also, since technical debt is real you can deduct it from your taxes just like any other debt, right? I mean we wouldn't want the IRS to be unaware that you owe more than 100% of the time and money you invested in building a solution so far, since it could lead them to want to tax you based on what you earned, which just plain isn't fair. They should only tax any remaining money after you have engineered a veritable Taj Mahal of code quality such that there isn't any remaining conceivable improvement. After all, you know what another word is for conceivable improvement: technical debt.