Ancient Rome was filled with unsound residential development that yielded a lot of profits to anyone with means and influence to erect buildings. They would reg

Ancient Rome was filled with unsound residential development that yielded a lot of profits to anyone with means and influence to erect buildings. They would regularly collapse but common people had little access to legal protection. Now we have strict building codes and thousands of buildings with dozens upon dozens of floors that can resist hurricanes and earthquakes. Software development is barely 3 generations old. One day we will have sound engineering and fairly solid systems on a scale we can't even fathom today. But it will take a lot of collective learning. For now rickety systems can hoover enough value for their owners that they are still getting built all over the place.