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@eigen I struggle a lot with this, and I think "Worse Is Better" is exactly the key.

I think "Worse Is Better" is equal parts on one side an intrinsically good and important thing and on the other side a disease brought on by capitalism.

Prioritizing resources, releasing early and often, avoiding overengineering and focusing on value are agile and lean practices, and I believe they are good practices.

Thinking shortsightedly, suboptimizing and failing to use resources efficiently from a societal perspective are capitalist problems, and can be amplified by agile and lean processes.

We poop code because it's easy to measure, we release features instead of long-term infrastructure because it's easy to measure, we build new things instead of maintaining old things because it provides visibility, we build towers of leaky and haphazard abstractions because time to market is king.