...and that's why we can't have nice things :( No, seriously, there's a saying that if construction engineers built buildings the way software engineers do, th

...and that's why we can't have nice things :( No, seriously, there's a saying that if construction engineers built buildings the way software engineers do, thousands of people would die each day because of buildings collapsing without any reason. Even if you build on the ruins of an old city, you still have to dig a hole that's deep enough (securing archaeological remains if necessary), create a stable surface with concrete piles or similar, and then you build a new building. You don't just stack miscellaneous boxes one on top of each other like in this XKCD (https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/) and hope that they don't fall down...