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> how much are you going to have to pay for it

Right, this is the part where you first have to internalize the true cost of bugs. You can't keep hiring $12k/yr third world sweatshop programmers if you want reliable software.

> no one cares because 1) it gets to market three times faster and 2) it has funny reaction gifs.

This is absolutely true, but I maintain this is mostly because businesses have an artificially high time preference due to government subsidies of debt, and in a less distorted market people would probably care a lot more about quality.




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